digitate
Americanadjective
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Zoology. having digits or digitlike processes.
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Botany. having radiating divisions or leaflets resembling the fingers of a hand.
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like a digit or finger.
adjective
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(of compound leaves) having the leaflets in the form of a spread hand
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(of animals) having digits or corresponding parts
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of digitate
Fisrt recorded in 1655–65; from Latin digitātus; see digit, -ate 1
Example Sentences
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Leaves alternate, compound, digitate, caducous; leaflets 5–7 with long common petiole.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers
The inflorescence consists of spikes, or spiciform racemes, solitary or digitate, and in some it is paniculate.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
Multidigitate, mul-ti-dij′i-tāt, adj. having many fingers, toes, or digitate processes.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
The corallum of Heliopora is of a blue colour, and has the form of broad, upright, lobed, or digitate masses flattened from side to side.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
The spikelets are lanceolate, 2- to 3-nate, in digitate or racemose spikes, jointed on the pedicels but not thickened at the base, 1-flowered.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
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