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Capitulum

A densely clustered inflorescence composed of a large number of individual florets arising from a platform-like base.

📖 Definitions of "Capitulum"

noun

1
A densely clustered inflorescence composed of a large number of individual florets arising from a platform-like base.
2
The head-like mouthpart apparatus of a tick, including the palpi, mandibles, and hypostome.
3
A small protuberance on a bone which articulates into another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
4
The enlarged end of a proboscis.

🔄 Synonyms of "Capitulum"

5 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
headnoun	(countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
crownnoun	(clothing, monarchy) A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
earnoun	(countable) The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna or auricle, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea.
treetopnoun	The crown or uppermost branches of a tree.
spikenoun	A sort of very large nail.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Capitulum"

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Word	Definition
treetopnoun	The crown or uppermost branches of a tree.
earnoun	(countable) The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna or auricle, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea.
spikenoun	A sort of very large nail.
crownnoun	(clothing, monarchy) A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
headnoun	(countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
stapesnoun	(anatomy, zootomy) A small stirrup-shaped innermost ossicle of the middle ear of mammals, transmitting vibrations from the incus to the inner ear.
capitulescencenoun	(botany) A compound inflorescence made of capitula instead of individual flowers.
capitulenoun	(botany) The flowering head that terminates a stem, a flower or flower head.
capitellumnoun	(botany, anatomy, arachnology) Synonym of capitulum.
umbelnoun	(botany) A flat-topped or rounded flower-cluster (= inflorescence) in which the individual flower stalks arise from the same point, the youngest flowers being at the centre.
involucelnoun	(botany) An involucre that forms at the base of a flower cluster within a compound inflorescence.
floretnoun	A small flower, especially one of a cluster in a composite flower.
inflorescencenoun	(botany) A group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a system of branches.
anthodiumnoun	(botany) calathidium.
involucrenoun	(botany) Conspicuous bract, bract pair or ring of bracts at the base of an inflorescence.
clinanthiumnoun	(botany) The receptacle of the flowers in a composite plant;
carpopodiumnoun	(botany) A receptacular elongation of the base of the gynoecium
amentnoun	(botany) A catkin or similar inflorescence.
racemenoun	(botany) An indeterminate inflorescence in which the flowers are arranged along a single central axis.
catkinnoun	(botany) A type of inflorescence, consisting of an axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar.