adj. 1. Enlarged and globular at the tip, as a bone of the wrist having a rounded knoblike end or the stigma of certain flowers. 2. Having flowers arranged in a dense headlike cluster. [Latin capitātus, having a head, from caput, capit-, head; see kaput- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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