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单词 capituliform
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capituliformadj.

Brit. /kəˈpɪtjᵿlᵻfɔːm/, /kəˈpɪtʃᵿlᵻfɔːm/, U.S. /kəˈpɪtʃələˌfɔrm/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: Latin capitulum , -form comb. form2.
Etymology: < classical Latin capitulum capitulum n. + -form comb. form2, after scientific Latin capituliformis ( J. Hedwig Fundamentum historiæ naturalis muscorum frondosorum (1782 , i. xii. 101)).
Chiefly Botany.
Having the form of, or resembling, a capitulum; having a small rounded head.
ΚΠ
1800 J. Hull Elements Bot. I. 67 Capituliform, capituliformes, terminating, the diameter of the aperture much smaller than that of the middle of the flower.
1851 Penny Cycl. Suppl. I. 372/2 Shields sessile, orbicular, convex, capituliform, not bordered, fixed by the circumference, free beneath in the centre.
1899 B. B. Woodward in R. Lydekker et al. Nat. Hist. 613 Sometimes between the admedian [radula tooth] and the uncini there is a conspicuous tooth differing from either, which may be termed the lateral or capituliform tooth.
1931 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 58 339 Inflorescence densely capituliform, immersed in the center of the terminal leaf-rosette.
1976 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 63 93 The inflorescence is capituliform but without a central axis or a flat, compound receptacle.
2007 A. Kurian & M. A. Sankar Med. Plants v. 222 Inflorescence is an axillary, solitary, dense, capituliform raceme on long peduncles.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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