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Noun caput has 2 senses

caput - a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure; "the caput humeri is the head of the humerus which fits into a cavity in the scapula"
--₁ is a kind of bulge, bump, hump, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence
head, caput - the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains; "he stuck his head out the window"
--₂ is a kind of external body part
--₂ is a part of
body, organic structure, physical structure; animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
--₂ has parts:
muzzle; ear; basilar artery, arteria basilaris; brain, encephalon; skull; face, human face; temple
--₂ has particulars: human head