digitate
Americanadjective
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Zoology. having digits or digitlike processes.
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Botany. having radiating divisions or leaflets resembling the fingers of a hand.
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like a digit or finger.
adjective
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(of compound leaves) having the leaflets in the form of a spread hand
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(of animals) having digits or corresponding parts
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of digitate
Fisrt recorded in 1655–65; from Latin digitātus; see digit, -ate 1
Example Sentences
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Racemes digitate, rarely solitary, spikelets all alike in form but differing in sex.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
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
The inflorescence consists of spikes, solitary, digitate or fascicled, articulate and fragile; the joints of the floral axis and the pedicels of the pedicelled spikelets are trigonous and hollowed ventrally.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
Spikes are digitate, 2 to 6, 1/2 to 1-1/2 inches long.
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
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