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

The stamens are here analogues not of a simple entire leaf, but of a lobed, digitate, or compound leaf, each subdivision bearing its separate anther.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.

Racemes digitate, rarely solitary, spikelets all alike in form but differing in sex.

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

Spikes 1 to 5 inches long, digitate, erect.

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

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

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