capitate

adjective

1. Botany. forming or shaped like a head or dense cluster.
2. Biology. having an enlarged or swollen, headlike termination.

adjective

1. botany shaped like a head, as certain flowers or inflorescences
2. zoology having an enlarged headlike enda capitate bone

adj.

“head-shaped,” 1660s, from Latin capitatus “headed,” from caput “head” (see capitulum).

adj.

1. Enlarged and globular at the tip, as a bone of the wrist having a rounded, knoblike end.

Noun

1. The largest of the carpal bones.

Adjective

1. Forming a headlike mass or dense cluster, as the flowers of plants in the composite family.