caput
About 0.35 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun The head.
- noun A knob-like protuberance or capitulum.
- noun The top or superior part of a thing.
- noun The head, the leader or chief of a geoup of people.
- noun The capital city, the headquarters.
- noun The Caput Senatus, council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to its constitution of 1856
- noun Ellipsis of caput succedaneum.
Similar words
head succedaneum scalp skullcap cephalism acrocephalia cornercap skull-cap calvaria capcase
Often followed by
mortuum succedaneum medusae et of and est income consumption
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