capitellate

English

Etymology

From Latin capitellum, diminutive of caput (“head”).

Adjective

capitellate (not comparable)

1. (botany) Having a very small knob-like termination, or collected into minute capitula.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “capitellate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Italian

Adjective

capitellate f

1. feminine plural of capitellato