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- Capitulum - n. - A thick head of flowers on a very short axis, as a clover top, or a dandelion; a composite flower. A capitulum may be either globular or flat.
- Capitulum - n. - A knoblike protuberance of any part, esp. at the end of a bone or cartilage. [See Illust. of Artiodactyla.]
- Radiate - a. - Having in a capitulum large ray florets which are unlike the disk florets, as in the aster, daisy, etc.
- Capitulum - n. - A thick head of flowers on a very short axis, as a clover top, or a dandelion; a composite flower. A capitulum may be either globular or flat.
- Lappaceous - a. - Resembling the capitulum of burdock; covered with forked points.
- Radius - n. - A ray, or outer floret, of the capitulum of such plants as the sunflower and the daisy. See Ray, 2.
- Capitular - a. - Pertaining to a capitulum; as, the capitular process of a vertebra, the process which articulates with the capitulum of a rib.