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capitulum::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | head |
| Type of | plant organ |
Examples of capitulum
capitulum
The top of the plant, or capitulum, has compact clusters of young branches.
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A set of bracts forms an involucre surrounding the base of the capitulum.
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The ray seeds have a winged structure formed by the capitulum bracts that aids wind dispersal.
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Huius legis secundum quidem capitulum in desuetudinem abiit.
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Upon the death of a grand master, the vice master called a capitulum of the leading officers of the order.
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The capitulum of Asteraceae has evolved many characteristics that make it look superficially like a single flower.
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The lessons formed a unique element, and in the other canonical hours give place to a capitulum or short lesson.
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This anterior body region is called the capitulum or gnathosoma and, according to some workers, is also found in Ricinulei.
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- A dense cluster of flowers or foliage; "a head of cauliflower"; "a head of lettuce"
- Ear: fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
- An arrangement of leafy branches forming the top or head of a tree
- A densely clustered inflorescence composed of a large number of individual florets arising from a platform-like base; The head-like mouthpart apparatus of a tick, including the palpi, mandibles, and hypostome; A small protuberance on a bone which articulates into another bone to form a ball- ...
- A dense cluster of more or less sessile flowers, e.g. in Asteraceae a group of florets sessile on a common receptacle. Fig.17 O & P.
- Broad flat upper surface where the polyps reside on some Octocorals, also known as polyparium or more commonly the "head".
- In nematodes: Medial ventral sclerotization of the spicular pouch. (14)
- (pl. capitula) - the primary inflorescence found in the Compositae, often referred to as a flower by the layman when viewing a typical radiate capitulum, and often a head in many texts, and composed of an involucre of protective bracts around the receptacle (the phyllaries), surrounding the florets.
- A dense cluster (inflorescence) of flowers combined into a structure which often has the appearance of a single flower (common in the Asteraceae) (pl. capitula).
