Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, growing in small heads.
- Having a capitellum or capitulum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having a very small knoblike termination, or collected into minute capitula.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Having a very small
knob -liketermination , or collected into minutecapitula .
Etymologies
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Latin capitellum, diminutive of caput head.
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