capitulum

English

noun
Definitions
  • (botany) A densely clustered inflorescence composed of a large number of individual florets arising from a platform-like base.
  • (arachnology) The head-like mouthpart apparatus of a tick, including the palpi, mandibles, and hypostome.
  • (anatomy) A small protuberance on a bone which articulates into another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
  • (entomology) The enlarged end of a proboscis.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin capitulum (a chapter of a book, chapter, in Medieval Latin also a synod council, charter, council, heading, in der, a small head, ceb, a chapter, diminutive of m, title).

Origin

Latin

capitulum

Gloss

a chapter of a book, chapter, in Medieval Latin also a synod council, charter, council, heading, in der, a small head, ceb, a chapter, diminutive of m, title

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Person/Thing

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