capitellate

Questions

What does capitellate mean?

Having a very small knob-like termination, or collected into minute capitula.

Where does capitellate come from?

Borrowed from New Latin capitellātus, from capitellum + -ātus, diminutive of caput (“head”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

How to pronounce capitellate

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