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capitate
[ kap-i-teyt ]
adjective
- Botany. forming or shaped like a head or dense cluster.
- Biology. having an enlarged or swollen, headlike termination.
capitate
/ ˈkæpɪˌteɪt /
adjective
- botany shaped like a head, as certain flowers or inflorescences
- zoology having an enlarged headlike end
a capitate bone
capitate
/ kăp′ĭ-tāt′ /
Noun
- The largest of the carpal bones.
Adjective
- Forming a headlike mass or dense cluster, as the flowers of plants in the composite family.
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- multi·capi·tate adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of capitate1
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Example Sentences
Small capitate processes or organs, observable under the wings of Diptera, attended by a spiracle.
In this moss, the paraphyses are inflated at the summit into little knobs, or they are capitate (fig. 37).
Valve linear, capitate at each end and tumid in the middle; stri distinctly punctate; pseudoraphe indistinct, or not apparent.
Valve with sides parallel; apices slightly capitate and revolute; stri, 10 in 10 .
Valve arcuate on the dorsal and nearly straight on the ventral side; ends protracted or slightly capitate.
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