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Capitulum   Listen
noun
Capitulum  n.  (pl. capitula)  
1.
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.
2.
(Anat.) A knoblike protuberance of any part, esp. at the end of a bone or cartilage.





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"Capitulum" Quotes from Famous Books



... arch is notched, for the exit of nerves. Jointed to the thoracic vertebrae on either side are the ribs (r.). Each rib has a process, the tuberculum, going up to articulate with the transverse process, and one, the capitulum articulating between the bodies of two contiguous vertebrae. The facets for the articulation of the capitulum are indicated in the side view by shading. At either end of the body of a vertebra of a young rabbit are bony caps, the epiphyses (ep.), separated from ...
— Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata • H. G. Wells
... robustis subulatis retrorsum pilosis apice rectis vel uncinatis.—A very distinct species. Habit of BRACHYSTEPHIUM SCAPIGERUM D. C.: but that ought to have no aristae to the achenium: here the awns are very stout in proportion to the size of the capitulum.] ...
— Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia • Thomas Mitchell


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