capitula

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of capitulum.
  capitulum

  noun

  any globose or knoblike part, as a flower head or the head of a bone.

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capitula

Sext and None generally have their capitula drawn from the middle and end of the same Epistle extract.

From The Divine Office by Edward J. Quigley

Before the 'Opus Majus,' Bacon, according to his own account, had written nothing except a few slight treatises, "capitula quaedam."

From Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies Volume I by Anonymous

The capitula are rather smaller than those figured by Gaudichaud; but in Mr. Oldfield's collection from the Murchison River we observe analogous specimens, with intermediate gradations.

From Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart by John McDouall Stuart

I find Midges, Plant-lice and Ants caught in it, as well as tufted seeds which have blown from the capitula of the Cichoriaceae.

From More Hunting Wasps by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

In the capitula of Compositae we sometimes find the florets converted into green leaves.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various

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