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; see digit, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

It was an herbaceous plant, having a stem nearly six feet high, and rather broad digitate leaves, with a loose spike of showy yellow flowers at the top.

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

The corallum of Heliopora is of a blue colour, and has the form of broad, upright, lobed, or digitate masses flattened from side to side.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various

Botanical Description.—A large tree of the first order with digitate leaves of 6–8 leaflets, broad, oval, very acute, tough, glabrous, growing on a long common petiole.

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

Alcyonium digitatum, a pink digitate form popularly known as “dead men’s fingers,” is common in 10-20 fathoms of water off the English coasts.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various

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

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