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

Leaves opposite, digitate; leaflets serrate, straight-veined, like a Chestnut-leaf.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Paspalum.Inflorescence digitate; glumes three with a minute glume; nerves of second glume five to seven, straight and prominent 2.

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

The inflorescence consists of three to five digitate spikes, 3/4 to 1-1/2 inches long, erect or spreading, pale green or purplish.

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

This plant was a tall single-stemmed annual, with a few digitate and toothed leaves, and a loose panicle of greenish flowers at its top.

From The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains by Reid, Mayne

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