adjective. 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.

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.

adjective. 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.

noun. The capitate bone of the wrist.

verb. To pay health-care providers using a capitation system.

adjective. being abruptly enlarged and globose at the tip

noun. the wrist bone with a rounded head shape that articulates with the 3rd metacarpus

"As Mesorhopella but golden, antenna short, capitate, club equal funicle, funicles transverse."

circular  round  

carpal  carpal bone  wrist bone