- Botany. See flower head (sense 1).
- Biology. A small knob or head-shaped part, such as a protuberance of a bone or the tip of an insect's antenna.
[Latin, diminutive of caput, capit-, head.]
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[Latin, diminutive of caput, capit-, head.]
A small head. The term used by some European writers instead of head or condyle.
A small, rounded end of a bone that articulates with another bone.
Pl. capitula [L.] a small eminence on a bone, as on the distal end of the humerus, by which it articulates with another bone.
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