palmate
shaped like an open palm or like a hand with the fingers extended, as a leaf or an antler.
Botany. having four or more lobes or leaflets radiating from a single point.
Zoology. web-footed.
Furniture.
decorated with palmettes.
(in furniture of the 17th century) having bands of semicircles enclosing a radiating leaf form.
Origin of palmate
1- Often pal·mat·ed [pal-mey-tid, pahl- pah-mey-] /ˈpæl meɪ tɪd, ˈpɑl- ˈpɑ meɪ-/ .
Other words from palmate
- pal·mate·ly, adverb
- sub·pal·mate, adjective
- sub·pal·mat·ed, adjective
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How to use palmate in a sentence
These are, or may be, included in the palmated class, as they are evidently woven for triumphal occasions.
Needlework As Art | Marian AlfordHead and skull as in Soricidæ, but with palmated feet and compressed tail, as in Myogalidæ.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon | Robert A. SterndaleThe marsh and lake tortoises have their feet palmated, to enable them to move either on the water or on land.
The Western World | W.H.G. KingstonThe antlers are greatly palmated and of enormous size, fine specimens measuring as much as 11 ft. between the tips.
Over the palm-trees' feathery crests sailed a black vulture, its palmated wing-tips spread like inky fingers against the blue.
Quick Action | Robert W. Chambers
British Dictionary definitions for palmate
palmated
/ (ˈpælmeɪt, -mɪt) /
shaped like an open hand: palmate antlers
botany having more than three lobes or segments that spread out from a common point: palmate leaves
(of the feet of most water birds) having three toes connected by a web
Origin of palmate
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Scientific definitions for palmate
[ păl′māt′, päl′- ]
Having a shape similar to that of a hand with the fingers extended. Some kinds of coral and the antlers of moose and certain deer are palmate.
Having three or more veins, leaflets, or lobes radiating from one point. Maples have palmately lobed leaves.
Having webbed toes. The feet of many swimming and diving birds are palmate.
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