Usually means: Largest bone in the wrist.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word capitate:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. capitate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. capitate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. capitate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. capitate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. capitate: Vocabulary.com
  6. capitate: Wordnik
  7. capitate: Wiktionary
  8. capitate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. capitate: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. capitate: Dictionary.com
  11. Capitate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Capitate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. capitate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. capitate: Rhymezone
  15. Capitate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. capitate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. capitate: Free Dictionary
  18. capitate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. capitate: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. capitate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. capitate: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. capitate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (capitate)

adjective:  (anatomy) Having a distinct globular tip.
adjective:  (botany, zoology) Topped with a dense, head-like cluster, such as the inflorescences of composites or the antennae of some insects.
noun:  (anatomy) The capitate bone of the wrist.
verb:  (US, health care) To pay health-care providers using a capitation system.

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