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n. Botany See flower head.

n. Biology A small knob or head-shaped part, such as a protuberance of a bone or the tip of an insect's antenna.

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

n. The head-like mouthpart apparatus of a tick, including the palpi, mandibles, and hypostome.

n. A small protuberance on a bone which articulates into another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.

n. The enlarged end of a proboscis.

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.

n. A knoblike protuberance of any part, esp. at the end of a bone or cartilage. [See Illust. of Artiodactyla.]

n. In anatomy, the head of a bone; especially, the head of a rib, as distinguished from its shoulder or tuberculum. Also called capitellum. See cut under endoskeleton.

n. In Cirripedia, specifically, the valves of the shell collectively, inclosing more or less of the body of the animal, as distinguished from the peduncular part of the creature.

n. In botany, a close head of sessile flowers, as in the Compositæ; also, as used by some early botanists, the receptacle of various fungi; in mosses, a close, dense cluster of leaves. Also called capitule.

n. In entomology: The enlarged terminal portion of the halter or poiser of a dipterous insect

n. The enlarged terminal portion of the sucking mouth of a fly, formed by two suctorial flaps called labella.

n. The knob at the end of a capitate antenna.

n. One of the stalked spheroidal sporangia of certain mycetozoans.

n. In actinians, the upper part of the column as distinguished from the scapus.

n. fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn

n. a dense cluster of flowers or foliage

n. an arrangement of leafy branches forming the top or head of a tree

"Above the front part of the capitulum is a slight depression, the radial fossa, which receives the anterior border of the head of the radius, when the forearm is flexed."

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