Capitulum

The term capitulum (plural capitula) can refer to several things:

• the Latin for chapter
  • an index or list of chapters at the head of a gospel manuscript
  • a short reading in the Liturgy of the Hours
  • A typographic symbol (⸿) to mark chapters or paragraphs, now evolved into the pilcrow
• In botany:
  • Capitulum (flower), a type of flower head composed of numerous tiny florets, characteristic of the Asteraceae family
  • Capitulum (moss), the top of a Sphagnum moss plant with compact clusters of young branches
• In zoology:
  • the capitulum of the humerus in vertebrates
  • the gnathosoma of ticks and mites
  • in stalked barnacles, the armoured portion within which the appendages and most of the viscera are located
  • a genus of goose barnacles
  • a part of the female Lepidoptera genitalia
  • a structure similar to an elaiosome found on the eggs of some species of stick insects