Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A compact cluster of sessile flowers, often surrounded by involucral bracts, as of daisies and other composite plants.
- noun A small knob or head-shaped part, such as a protuberance of a bone or the tip of an insect's antenna.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In actinians, the upper part of the column as distinguished from the scapus.
- noun In anatomy, the head of a bone; especially, the head of a rib, as distinguished from its shoulder or tuberculum. Also called
capitellum . See cut underendoskeleton . - noun In Cirripedia, specifically, the valves of the shell collectively, inclosing more or less of the body of the animal, as distinguished from the peduncular part of the creature.
- noun In botany, a close head of sessile flowers, as in the Compositæ; also, as used by some early botanists, the receptacle of various fungi; in mosses, a close, dense cluster of leaves. Also called
capitule . - noun In entomology: The enlarged terminal portion of the halter or poiser of a dipterous insect
- noun The enlarged terminal portion of the sucking mouth of a fly, formed by two suctorial flaps called
labella . - noun The knob at the end of a capitate antenna.
- noun One of the stalked spheroidal sporangia of certain mycetozoans.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
- noun (Anat.) A knoblike protuberance of any part, esp. at the end of a bone or cartilage. [See
Illust. ofArtiodactyla .]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A densely clustered
inflorescence composed of a large number of individualflorets arising from aplatform -like base. - noun arachnology The head-like
mouthpart apparatus of atick , including thepalpi ,mandibles , andhypostome . - noun anatomy A small
protuberance on a bone whicharticulates into another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint. - noun entomology, obsolete The enlarged end of a
proboscis .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
- noun a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
- noun an arrangement of leafy branches forming the top or head of a tree
Etymologies
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Examples
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Above the front part of the capitulum is a slight depression, the radial fossa, which receives the anterior border of the head of the radius, when the forearm is flexed.
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Vespers, that is, the capitulum, hymn, antiphon of the "Magnificat", is taken from the Sanctorale.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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Greek Fathers, (as "capitulum" by the Latins,) to denote a passage of
The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established 1813-1888 1871
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I could with but slight difficulty find my way back to Jon IV, or Jon X, or Jon CLXXVI, Dei gratia capitulum, but Messrs. D & M do not even accord me that exiguous courtesy.
Quakers in Spain superversive 2006
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Nevertheless, at all adventures they rang the bells ad capitulum capitulantes.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Nevertheless, at all adventures they rang the bells ad capitulum capitulantes.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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I owe to Mr. Berkeley the communication of a capitulum of a species of _Bidens_, in which there was a transition from the form of ligulate corollas to those that were deeply divided into three, four, or five oblong lobes.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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A less degree of this change wherein a few flowers may be found, as it were, detached from the ordinary capitulum may often be observed in
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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"Item sunt alie expense facte in Curiis Regis annuatim pro officio generalis procuratoris in diversis Curiis Regis, que de necessitate fieri oportet, pro brevibus Regis, et Cartis impetendis, et aliis, negociis in eisdem Curiis expediendis, que ad minus ascendunt per annum, prout evidencius apparet, per compotum et memoranda dicti fratris de Scaccario qui per capitulum ad illud officium oneratur ... lx m."
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[46] Cramer, 'Bildungsabweichungen,' p. 56, tab. vii, fig. 10, figures a case wherein the two central flowers of the capitulum of _Centaurea
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
IndiaAmos commented on the word capitulum
In typography, a glyph that resembles a capital C crossed by one or two vertical lines.
"Like most punctuation, the paragraph mark (or pilcrow) has an exotic history. It's tempting to recognize the symbol as a 'P for paragraph,' though the resemblance is incidental: in its original form, the mark was an open C crossed by a vertical line or two, a scribal abbreviation for capitulum, the Latin word for 'chapter.' Because written forms evolve through haste, the strokes through the C gradually came to descend further and further, its overall shape ultimately coming to resemble the modern "reverse P" by the beginning of the Renaissance. Early liturgical works, in imitation of written manuscripts, favored the traditional C-shaped capitulum; many modern bibles still do." —Jonathan Hoefler,
February 26, 2009