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.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Capitate

Singular:

capitate

Plural:

capitates

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