digitate

American  

[dij-i-teyt] / ˈdɪdʒ ɪˌteɪt /

Also digitated

adjective

1. Zoology. having digits or digitlike processes.

2. Botany. having radiating divisions or leaflets resembling the fingers of a hand.

3. like a digit or finger.

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digitate British  

/ ˈdɪdʒɪˌteɪt /

adjective

1. (of compound leaves) having the leaflets in the form of a spread hand

2. (of animals) having digits or corresponding parts

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Other Word Forms

• digitately adverb
• digitation noun
• multidigitate adjective
• undigitated adjective

Etymology

Origin of digitate

Fisrt recorded in 1655–65; from Latin digitātus; digit, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Spikelets many, dissimilar, in solitary, digitate or fascicled racemes or spikes; first glume not sunk in the hollow of the rachis.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

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.

The inflorescence consists of two to eight smooth, digitate, green or purplish spikes, 1 to 3 inches long; rachis is slender, compressed or angular, scaberulous.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

What similarities in the organisation of man and the digitate mammals, and yet what differences between their attitudes when standing!

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

The sponge is either devoid of branches or produces irregular, compressed, and often digitate processes, sometimes of considerable length and delicacy.

From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Annandale, Nelson