Lexic.us

Definition of Capitulum

1. Noun. A dense cluster of flowers or foliage. "A head of lettuce"

2. Noun. Fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn.

3. Noun. An arrangement of leafy branches forming the top or head of a tree.

Definition of Capitulum

1. n. A thick head of flowers on a very short axis, as a clover top, or a dandelion; a composite flower. A capitulum may be either globular or flat.

Definition of Capitulum

1. Noun. (botany) A densely clustered inflorescence composed of a large number of individual florets arising from a platform-like base. ¹

2. Noun. (arachnology) The head-like mouthpart apparatus of a tick, including the palpi, mandibles, and hypostome. ¹

3. Noun. (anatomy) A small protuberance on a bone which articulates into another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint. ¹

4. Noun. (entomology obsolete) The enlarged end of a proboscis. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Capitulum

1. a flower cluster [n -LA]

Medical Definition of Capitulum

1. A dense cluster of stalkless flowers. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Capitulum

capitularly capitulary capitulate capitulated capitulates capitulating capitulation capitulationer capitulationest capitulationism

capitulationist capitulations capitulator capitule capitulescence capitulum (current term) capitulum humeri capitulum of humerus capiz capizes

caplan's syndrome caplan syndrome caple caples capless caplet caplets caplike caplin caplins

Literary usage of Capitulum

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

1. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet, Edward Nares (1843)
"... eie per nos tus Decanus et capitulum Ecclesia; Callie- >° quadam ... Et quod pni-fatua De- et capitulum Sancti Pauli London, ..."

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