Definitions for capitate

capitate cap·i·tate

Spelling: [kap-i-teyt]
IPA: /ˈkæp ɪˌteɪt/

Capitate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 175 anagrams from letters in capitate (aaceiptt).

Definitions for capitate

adjective

  1. Botany. forming or shaped like a head or dense cluster.
  2. Biology. having an enlarged or swollen, headlike termination.

Origin of capitate

1655-65; Latin capitātus headed, equivalent to capit- (stem of caput) head + -ātus -ate1

Examples for capitate

Achenes numerous, capitate, membranaceous, compressed-4-angled and inflated.

In this moss, the paraphyses are inflated at the summit into little knobs, or they are capitate (fig. 37).

There are five stamens, a filiform style, and a capitate stigma.

Valve lanceolate, with rostrate or capitate ends; stauros in some cases does not reach the margin.

capitate: with a head: that type of clavate antenna in which the club is abruptly enlarged at tip and forms a spherical mass.

Valve linear, capitate at each end and tumid in the middle; stri distinctly punctate; pseudoraphe indistinct, or not apparent.

The ovary has a thick style and capitate stigma (c), and the fruit is a drupe (d).

The tentacles are all capitate and distributed, and about 2-1/2 times the body length.

Pistils from five to ten, capitate at their summits, affixed laterally to the middle of the seeds, as in Alchemilla.

Valve linear, with protracted, sub-rostrate or capitate ends.

Word Value for capitate
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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