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Definition of Capitate

1. Adjective. Being abruptly enlarged and globose at the tip.

2. Noun. The wrist bone with a rounded head shape that articulates with the 3rd metacarpus.

Definition of Capitate

1. a. Headlike in form; also, having the distal end enlarged and rounded, as the stigmas of certain flowers.

Definition of Capitate

1. Adjective. (anatomy) Having a distinct globular tip. ¹

2. Adjective. (botany) Forming a dense, head-like cluster, such as the inflorescences of composites. ¹

3. Noun. (anatomy) The capitate bone of the wrist. ¹

4. Verb. (US health care) To pay health-care providers using a capitation system. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Capitate

1. head-shaped [adj]

Medical Definition of Capitate

1. Enlarged or swollen at tip, gathered into a mass at apex, as compound stigma, a knoblike stigma terminating a style. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Capitate

capitalizations capitalize capitalized capitalizer capitalizers capitalizes capitalizing capitally capitalness capitals

capitan capitani capitano capitanos capitans capitate (current term) capitate bone capitated capitates capitatim

capitating capitation capitation fee capitations capitative capitayn capitayns capitella capitellate capitellum

Literary usage of Capitate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1876)
".Style-branches of the disk-flowers truncate-capitate or tipped with a very short cone ; those of the rays little exserted. ..."

2. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa ( Gray, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1908)
"... nearly entire ; flowers in mostly terminal dense capitate clusters ... obtuse at base ; capitate ..."

3. Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray, Warren Harmon Lewis (1918)
"The capitate bone is the largest of the carpal bones, and occupies the center ... The left capitate bone. the navicular and lunate; a constricted portion or ..."

4. Companion to the Botanical Magazine by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1835)
"Stigma capitate. Capsule ovate, pointed, smooth, five to six-celled, ... Stigma capitate, obtuse. Berry of the size of a cherry, snow-white, globular and ..."

5. Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Indiae Orientalis: Containing Abridged by Robert Wight, George Arnott Walker Arnott (1834)
"Stigmas capitate. Capsule 1-celled, 2-valved, truncated at the apex, o-furrowed, crowned with the limb of the calyx, many-seeded. ..."

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