Definitions for capitulum

capitulum ca·pit·u·lum

Spelling: [kuh-pich-uh-luh m]
IPA: /kəˈpɪtʃ ə ləm/

Capitulum is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 318 anagrams from letters in capitulum (acilmptuu).

Definitions for capitulum

noun

  1. Biology. any globose or knoblike part, as a flower head or the head of a bone.

Origin of capitulum

1715-25; Latin, equivalent to capit- (stem of caput) head + -ulum, neuter of -ulus -ule

Examples for capitulum

The capitulum contains but few flowers, all of which are perfect; and the fruit has no pappus.

In the Odontocetes the ribs have, some of them, the normal attachment by capitulum and tuberculum.

capitulum concedit ei Wicham manerium suum ad firmam quamdiu vixerit et inde bene servierit.

Cirripedia having a carapace, consisting either of a capitulum on a peduncle, or of an operculated shell with a basis.

capitulum sine valvis; apertur ampl; pedunculus fimbriatus, sub-globosus, infossus.

The tuberculum and capitulum on each of the trunk ribs are separated only by a shallow concavity.

As is well known, the ribs of the Monotremata have only the central head, the capitulum.

Dorsolaterally there is an articular surface for the capitulum of the rib.

It is readily known by the numerous irregularly arranged scales at the base of the capitulum.

The capitulum in the largest specimens was .2 of an inch in length.

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