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capitate
[ kap-i-teyt ]
adjective
- Botany. forming or shaped like a head or dense cluster.
- Biology. having an enlarged or swollen, headlike termination.
capitate
/ ˈæɪˌٱɪ /
adjective
- botany shaped like a head, as certain flowers or inflorescences
- zoology having an enlarged headlike end
a capitate bone
capitate
/ ă′ĭ-′ /
Noun
- The largest of the carpal bones.
Adjective
- Forming a headlike mass or dense cluster, as the flowers of plants in the composite family.
Other yvlog Forms
- ܱt·i·ٲٱ adjective
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of capitate1
Example Sentences
Spikelets and numerous flowers compressed, crowded in a densely spiked or capitate panicle.
Ovary.—One-celled; with a disklike summit, tapering into two stout styles with large capitate stigmas.
Some or all of the anthers become twisted so that insects in probing for honey will touch the anthers with one side of their head and the capitate stigma with the other.
The carpels are united to form a 4- to 5-chambered ovary, which bears a simple elongated style ending in a capitate stigma; each ovary-chamber contains one to many ovules attached to a central placenta.
Pistils from five to ten, capitate at their summits, affixed laterally to the middle of the seeds, as in Alchemilla.
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