EGAVE

caput

About 0.35 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The head.
  2. noun A knob-like protuberance or capitulum.
  3. noun The top or superior part of a thing.
  4. noun The head, the leader or chief of a geoup of people.
  5. noun The capital city, the headquarters.
  6. noun The Caput Senatus, council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to its constitution of 1856
  7. 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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