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▪ I. capitate, a. Nat. Hist.|ˈkæpɪteɪt|
[ad. L. capitāt-us headed, f. caput, capit- head: cf. next, and see -ate2 2.]
1. Having a distinct head, knob-headed.
1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. Introd., Gudgin, capitate and not capitate. 1807J. E. Smith Phys. Bot. 274 [The Pistil] capitate, forming a little round head. 1848Dana Zooph. 135 Tentacles long and capitate.
2. Bot. Having the inflorescence in a close terminal cluster or head, as in composite flowers.
1686Phil. Trans. XVI. 285 The capitate Herb, whose flowers are fistular. 1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. x. 103 Capitate flowers like the thistles. 1861Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. V. 298 Dense-headed Rush, or Capitate Rush.
Hence ˈcapitated ppl. a., with same meaning.
1676Grew Anat. Flowers App. §15 Without Stalks, that is, Capitated, as in Scabious. 1763Ehret in Phil. Trans. LIII. 132 Having a globular or capitated stigma.
▪ II. capitate, v. Math.|ˈkæpɪteɪt|
[f. as prec.]
(See quot.)
1884Cayley Mem. Seminvariants in Amer. Jrnl. Math. VII. 1. 10 We capitate a symbol by prefixing to it a number which is not less than the highest number contained in it: thus 552 may be capitated into 5552, 6552, etc. |