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English
Alternative forms
Noun
flower head (plural flower heads)
- (botany) A compact cluster of florets having the appearance of a single ] (as in the daisy family).
Translations
cluster of florets
- Finnish: mykerö
- French: capitule (fr) m
- German: Korb (de) m, Blütenkorb m, Blütenkörbchen n, Köpfchen (de) n, Capitulum n
- Greek: ανθοκεφαλή (el) f (anthokefalí)
- Irish: bhláthcheann
- Italian: calatide f, capolino (it) m
- Latin: capitulum n, corbicula f, calathidium n, anthodium n
- Portuguese: capítulo (pt) m
- Russian: пы́льная голо́вка f (pýlʹnaja golóvka)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: гла̀вица f
- Latin: glàvica (sh) f
- Spanish: cabezuela f, capítulo (es) m
- Turkis: kömeç (tr), kımme
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