capitulum
Americannoun
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capitula
plural
noun
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a racemose inflorescence in the form of a disc of sessile flowers, the youngest at the centre. It occurs in the daisy and related plants
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anatomy zoology a headlike part, esp the enlarged knoblike terminal part of a long bone, antenna, etc
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capitula
plural
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A small knob or head-shaped part, such as a protuberance of a bone or the tip of an insect's antenna.
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An inflorescence consisting of a compact mass of small stalkless flowers, as in the English daisy. The yellow central portion of the capitulum of a daisy consists of disk flowers, while the outer white, petallike structures are actually ray flowers. The capitulum is the characteristic inflorescence of the composite family (Asteraceae) of flowering plants.
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Etymology
Origin of capitulum
1715–25; < Latin, equivalent to capit- (stem of caput ) head + -ulum, neuter of -ulus -ule
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Jerome, in fact, seems to have been the first to unambiguously use the term capitulum to refer to a numbered, titled segment of a text.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2014
The articulating surfaces of the distal humerus consist of the trochlea medially and the capitulum laterally.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The capitulum articulates with the radius bone of the forearm.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The transference from the reading to the assembly itself, and to the members constituting it, was easy, through such phrases as convenire ad capitulum.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various
In young specimens, peduncle nearly colourless; and in those under a quarter of an inch long in the capitulum, the top of the peduncle has not acquired its orange tint.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
Bacon, whose previous writings had been mostly scattered tracts, capitula quaedam, took fresh courage from this command of the pope.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various
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
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
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
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
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