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Capitate   Listen
adjective
Capitate  adj.  
1.
Headlike in form; also, having the distal end enlarged and rounded, as the stigmas of certain flowers.
2.
(Bot.) Having the flowers gathered into a head.





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"Capitate" Quotes from Famous Books



... gills as well as the edges is provided with clavate cystidia which are filled with a yellow pigment, giving to the gills the bright yellow color so characteristic. These cystidia extend above the basidia, and the ends are rounded so that sometimes they appear capitate. The yellow color is not confined to the cystidia, for the sub-hymenium is also colored in a similar way. The spores are yellowish, oblong to elliptical or spindle-shaped, and measure 8—12 x 3—5 mu. The stem is the same color as the pileus, but paler, and more yellow at the base. It is marked ...
— Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. • George Francis Atkinson


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