Capitulum (plural capitula)

A compact cluster of ± sessile flowers; the capitulum may be surrounded by specialised bracts, the involucre.


A short head.


A compact cluster of more or less sessile flowers.


A dense head of tiny flowers without individual stalks (as in the Daisy and Teasel families), surrounded by an involucre of bracts.


The rounded end of a bone which articulates with another bone, e.g. the distal end of the humerus.


 


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