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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The inflorescence consists of solitary, binate, digitate, or panicled racemes.
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
Alcyo′nium, a genus of cœlenterate animals, one familiar species of which, dredged around the British coasts—A. digitātum—is named 'Dead-Men's Fingers', or 'Cow's Paps', from its lobed or digitate appearance.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide 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.
Racemes digitate, rarely solitary, spikelets all alike in form but differing in sex.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
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