palmate
adjective
shaped like an open palm or like a hand with the fingers extended, as a leaf or an antler.
palmated
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a variation of
palmate.
Example Sentences
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There were “lairs” among the underwood, constructed of branches, and thatched with the palmated leaves of the yucca, or with reeds brought from the adjacent river.
From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart
The horns spring from beneath the eyes, and curiously resemble those of stags, being either branched or palmated.
From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Charles Darwin
They are rounded below, but in the upper part slightly flattened or palmated.
From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Mayne Reid
After sniffing it all over he fell to furrowing it excitedly with the two lowermost branches of his antlers,––short, broad, palmated projections thrust out low over his forehead, and called by woodsmen “the ploughs.”
From The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories by Charles Livingston Bull
It is referred to in an epistle of Gratian to Augustus: “I have sent thee a palmated garment, in which the name of our divine parent Constantine is interwoven.”
From The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries by Sutherland Menzies
