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 alternate, compound, digitate, caducous; leaflets 5–7 with long common petiole.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers

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.

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.

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.

Usually, three digitate processes of cartilaginous material in which additional ossifications may occur arise from the terminus of the shaft.

From The Baculum in Microtine Rodents by Anderson, Sydney