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capitellate

capitellate adjective: having a very small knob-like termination, or collected into minute capitula.

Adjective

capitellate (not comparable)

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

capitellate meaning in Tamil

capitellate in Tamil

சிறுகுமிழுரு முனையுள்ள, சிறுதலையுள்ள

Origin of capitellate

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

Questions about capitellate

What does capitellate mean?
Capitellate means having a very small knob-like termination, or collected into minute capitula.
What is capitellate in Tamil?
Capitellate in Tamil is சிறுகுமிழுரு முனையுள்ள, சிறுதலையுள்ள. See Capitellate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is capitellate?
Capitellate is an adjective.

Words near capitellate in the dictionary

  1. capite
  2. capitectomy
  3. capitella
  4. capitellacin
  5. capitellar
  6. capitellate
  7. capitellid
  8. capitellids
  9. capitellum
  10. capites
  11. Capito

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Adapted from Wiktionary: capitellate (page history and authors); capitellate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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