Capitate Definition

kăpĭ-tāt
adjective
Enlarged at the head or tip.
Webster's New World
Enlarged and globular at the tip, as a bone of the wrist having a rounded knoblike end or the stigma of certain flowers.
American Heritage
Head-shaped, as some flowers.
Webster's New World
Having flowers arranged in a dense headlike cluster.
American Heritage
noun
The largest of the carpal bones.
American Heritage Science
Synonyms:
verb

(US, health care) To pay health-care providers using a capitation system.

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Other Word Forms of Capitate

Noun

Singular:
capitate
Plural:
capitates

Origin of Capitate

  • Latin capitātus having a head from caput capit- head kaput- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin capitatus (“having a head”), from caput (“head”)

    From Wiktionary

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