capitule (kapitul)

[L. capitulum, a chapter: see capitulum and chapter.] 1. A chapter. The contents of this capitule [are] by you much to be pondred. Hakluyt's Voyages, L. 229. 2. In bot., same as capitulum, 3. capituliform (ka-pit'u-li-form), a. [L. capi tulum, a little head, + form a, shape.] Resembling a small head or capitulum. Also capitel liform. capitulum (ka-pit'ū-lum), n.; pl. capitula (-lä). [L., a small head, a capital or head of a column, a chapter, dim. of caput (cap it-), head: see caput, and cf. capitellum, capitular; see also capital, chapiter, chapter.] 1. In an at., the head of a bone; especially, the head of a rib, as distinguished from its shoulder or tuber der endoskeleton.-2. In Cirriped i a, specificulum. Also called capitellum. See cut uncally, the valves of the shell collectively, in IMG:content-3098.png:[blocks in formation] 3. In bot., a close head of se ile flowers, as in the Composite ; also, as used by some early botanists, the receptacle of various fungi; in mo es, a close, dense cluster of leaves. Also called capitule.-4. In entom.: (a) The enlarged terminal portion of the halter or poiser of a dipterous insect. (b) The enlarged terminal portion of the sucking mouth of a fly, formed two suctorial flaps called labella. The knob at the end of a capitate antenna.-5. One of the stalked spheroidal sporangia of certain mycetozoans.