Capitulum

capitulum (plural capitula) may refer to:


 * the Latin word for chapter
 * an index or list of chapters at the head of a gospel manuscript
 * a short reading in the Liturgy of the Hours
 * derived from which, it is the Latin for the assembly known as a chapter
 * a typographic symbol (⸿), to mark chapters or paragraphs, now evolved into the pilcrow

Botany

 * Capitulum (flower), a type of flower head composed of numerous tiny florets, characteristic of the family Asteraceae
 * Capitulum (moss), the top of a Sphagnum moss plant with compact clusters of young branches; also the apothecium (fruiting body) of lichens of the order Calicium

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
 * Capitulum (genus), 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