Word

caput, n.
(capita)

the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
<noun.body> freq. cnt.: 208 freq. cnt.: 208

caput head

sample sentences

"he stuck his head out the window"

semantic pointers

part holonym

animal, creature, beast, animate being, brute, fauna body, organic structure

part meronym

muzzle ear basilar artery, arteria basilaris brain, encephalon skull face, human face temple

hypernym

external body part

hyponym

human head

a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure
<noun.shape>

caput

sample sentences

"the caput humeri is the head of the humerus which fits into a cavity in the scapula"

semantic pointers

hypernym

bulge, protuberance, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence