Capitulum Definition

kə-pĭchə-ləm
capitula
noun
capitula
A compact cluster of sessile flowers, often surrounded by involucral bracts, as of daisies and other composite plants.
American Heritage Medicine
A knoblike part, as at the end of a bone in a joint.
Webster's New World
A small knob or head-shaped part, such as a protuberance of a bone or the tip of an insect's antenna.
American Heritage
Webster's New World

(botany) A densely clustered inflorescence composed of a large number of individual florets arising from a platform-like base.

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Other Word Forms of Capitulum

Noun

Singular:
capitulum
Plural:
capitula

Origin of Capitulum

  • Latin diminutive of caput capit- head kaput- in Indo-European roots

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

  • From Latin capitulum

    From Wiktionary

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