CAPITULUM


Meaning of CAPITULUM in English

/keuh pich"euh leuhm/ , n. , pl. capitula /-leuh/ .

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

[ 1715-25; capit- (s. of caput ) head + -ulum, neut. of -ulus -ULE ]

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