Capitate
Word | CAPITATE |
Character | 8 |
Hyphenation | cap i tate |
Pronunciations | N/A |
Definitions and meanings of "Capitate"
What do we mean by capitate?
Enlarged and globular at the tip, as a bone of the wrist having a rounded knoblike end or the stigma of certain flowers. adjective
Having flowers arranged in a dense headlike cluster. adjective
To put a head upon; specifically, in mathematics, to prefix to (a symbol) a number not less than the highest digit contained in it: thus 12 may be capitated into 212.
In botany, head-shaped, or collected in a head, as a dense terminal cluster of sessile or nearly sessile flowers; having a rounded head: as, a capitate stigma.
In ornithology, having an enlarged extremity: as, the capitate feather of a peacock's tail.
In entomology, suddenly enlarged at the end so as to form a ball or oval mass: applied to the antennæ of insects when this form is produced by several expanded terminal joints, as in most of the Curculionidæ.
Headlike in form; also, having the distal end enlarged and rounded, as the stigmas of certain flowers. adjective
Having the flowers gathered into a head. adjective
Having a distinct globular tip. adjective
Forming a dense, head-like cluster, such as the inflorescences of composites. adjective
The capitate bone of the wrist. noun
To pay health-care providers using a capitation system. verb
Being abruptly enlarged and globose at the tip adjective
The wrist bone with a rounded head shape that articulates with the 3rd metacarpus noun
(anatomy) The capitate bone of the wrist.
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