ALL meanings of capitulum
ca·pit·u·lum
C c - noun capitulum 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 3
- noun capitulum a headlike part, esp the enlarged knoblike terminal part of a long bone, antenna, etc 3
- noun capitulum a knoblike part, as at the end of a bone in a joint 3
- noun capitulum head (sense 17) head (sense 17a) 3
- noun capitulum A compact head of a structure, in particular a dense, flat cluster of small flowers or florets, as in plants of the daisy family. 1
- noun plural capitulum Biology. any globose or knoblike part, as a flower head or the head of a bone. 1
- noun capitulum (botany) A densely clustered inflorescence composed of a large number of individual florets arising from a platform-like base. 0
- noun capitulum (arachnology) The head-like mouthpart apparatus of a tick, including the palpi, mandibles, and hypostome. 0
- noun capitulum (anatomy) A small protuberance on a bone which articulates into another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint. 0
- noun capitulum (Obsolete (No longer in use)) (entomology) The enlarged end of a proboscis. 0