noun
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the state of being palmate
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a projection or division of a palmate structure
Etymology
Origin of palmation
Example Sentences
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With moose a better idea of these qualities can be obtained by measuring the extreme breadth of the palmation, and the extreme length from the tip of the brow point backward in each horn.
From Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club by Various
The palmation was much broader than I have seen in any other Caribou.
From The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin by Harper, Francis
The weight of the dried skull and antlers was ninety-three pounds, the palmation being in places 2-1/8 inches thick.
From American Big Game in Its Haunts by Various
But there are also adaptive and purely analogical homologies, such as the interdigital palmation of aquatic birds, amphibians and mammals.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
The antlers have the trez-tine near the small brow-tine, and the palmation beginning near the former.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
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