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Head :: Head (n.) A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a capitulum..

Capitular :: Capitular (a.) Pertaining to a capitulum; as, the capitular process of a vertebra, the process which articulates with the capitulum of a rib..

Lappaceous :: Lappaceous (a.) Resembling the capitulum of burdock; covered with forked points.

Capitulum :: Capitulum (n.) A thick head of flowers on a very short axis, as a clover top, or a dandelion; a composite flower. A capitulum may be either globular or flat..

Capitular :: Capitular (a.) Growing in, or pertaining to, a capitulum..

Radius :: Radius (n.) A ray, or outer floret, of the capitulum of such plants as the sunflower and the daisy. See Ray, 2..

Radiate :: Radiate (a.) Having in a capitulum large ray florets which are unlike the disk florets, as in the aster, daisy, etc..

Capitula :: Capitula (n. pl.) See Capitulum.

Caput :: Caput (n.) The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or capitulum..

Capitulum :: Capitulum (n.) A knoblike protuberance of any part, esp. at the end of a bone or cartilage. [See Illust. of Artiodactyla.].

Buttonbush :: Buttonbush (n.) A shrub (Cephalanthus occidentalis) growing by the waterside; -- so called from its globular head of flowers. See Capitulum.

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