capitate
adjective
- enlarged at the head or tip
- head-shaped, as some flowers
See capitate in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(kăpˈĭ-tātˌ)
adjective- Anatomy Enlarged and globular at the tip, as a bone of the wrist having a rounded knoblike end.
- Botany Forming a headlike mass or dense cluster, as the flowers of plants in the composite family.
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