digitate

American  

[dij-i-tayt] / 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

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

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Etymology

Origin of digitate

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

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Example Sentences

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digitate

The spikelets are sessile, 3 to 12 flowered, 2 to 3-seriate, secund, laterally compressed and forming digitate whorled or capitate spikes, not joined at the base; rachilla continuous between the flowering glumes.

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

Spikelets 1-flowered, with a mere naked short-pedicelled rudiment of a second flower, imbricate-spiked on one side of a flattish rhachis; the spikes usually digitate at the naked summit of the flowering culms.

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 Asa Gray

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 Mayne Reid

The inflorescence consists of spikes, or spiciform racemes, solitary or digitate, and in some it is paniculate.

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

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 K. Rangachari

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