capitulum

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But just how do the knobs—called capitula—attract ants?

From Science Magazine

Jerome, in fact, seems to have been the first to unambiguously use the term capitulum to refer to a numbered, titled segment of a text.

From The New Yorker

On the attachments of the Urodele rib to the vertebra and their homologies with the capitulum and tuberculum of the Amniote rib.

From Project Gutenberg

Disc, or Disk, the central part of the capitulum of composit�, surrounded by the ray.

From Project Gutenberg

The sterile bracts of the daisy occasionally produce capitula, and give rise to the hen-and-chickens daisy.

From Project Gutenberg