CAPITULUM
\kɐpˈɪtjʊləm], \kɐpˈɪtjʊləm], \k_ɐ_p_ˈɪ_t_j_ʊ_l_ə_m]\
Definitions of CAPITULUM
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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a dense clusters of flowers or foliage; "a head of cauliflower"; "a head of lettuce"
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the upper branches and leaves of a tree
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fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
By Princeton University
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a dense clusters of flowers or foliage; "a head of cauliflower"; "a head of lettuce"
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the upper branches and leaves of a tree
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fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A knoblike protuberance of any part, esp. at the end of a bone or cartilage. [See Illust. of Artiodactyla.]
By Oddity Software
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A knoblike protuberance of any part, esp. at the end of a bone or cartilage. [See Illust. of Artiodactyla.]
By Noah Webster.
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A knob-like swelling at the end of a bone; the part of the body of a Cirripede enclosed in the mantle as opposed to the peduncle; the swollen end of a hair or tentacle; the enlarged end of an insect proboscis; the exsert part of the head in ticks; an inflorescence of sessile flowers or florets crowded together on a receptacle and usually surrounded by an involucre.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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Alembic, Condyle, see Caput -c. Costae, see Costa-c. Laryngis, Corniculum laryngis-c. Martis, Eryngium campestre-c. Santorini, Corniculum laryngis.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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In botany, an inflorescence of sessile flowers crowded together into a common head. [Lat.]
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A little head; a small process or protuberance fitting into a depression in another bone; also the head of a rib, a metacarpal bone, etc., e. g., c. fibulae, humeri, mandibulae, radii, ulnae.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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