NOUN
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a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
a head of lettuce
a head of cauliflower - an arrangement of leafy branches forming the top or head of a tree
- fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
How To Use capitulum In A Sentence
- 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
- After fertilization, several achenes are produced per capitulum, and seeds are wind-dispersed.
- 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. II. Osteology. 6a. 3. The Humerus
- 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
- 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
- The temporal phases of staminate and pistillate flowers never overlap in the same capitulum, although different capitula of the same individual plant may be in different phases at any given moment.
- [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
- 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.] 1ST MARCH. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
- 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.] 1ST MARCH. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
- The head (capitulum mallei) is the large upper extremity of the bone; it is oval in shape, and articulates posteriorly with the incus, being free in the rest of its extent. X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1d. 3. The Auditory Ossicles