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Capitate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In botany, growing in a head, applied to a flower, or stigma.

Capitate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Headlike in form; also, having the distal end enlarged and rounded, as the stigmas of certain flowers.

2. Having the flowers gathered into a head.