digitate
adjective
having digits or digitlike processes.
digitately
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a word derived from
digitate.
Example Sentences
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The inflorescence consists of five to fourteen or fifteen sessile, digitately arranged spikes, varying in length from 1-1/2 to 3 inches, on a slender peduncle; the rachis is slender minutely hairy swollen at the base.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
P. conchate, woolly, digitately lobed, white then yellowish ochre, glabrous, hygr. fragile, fixed by a narrow lateral point; g. densely and acutely dentato-serrate; sp. glob. 3-3.5.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
Sometimes there may be seven leaflets pinnately, not digitately, arranged.
From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Neltje Blanchan
The inflorescence consists of from four to nine spikes digitately arranged on a long peduncle and the leaf-sheath enclosing the inflorescence is somewhat large and inflated.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
The inflorescence consists of digitately arranged spikes 1-1/2 to 4 inches long on a peduncle which is sometimes 15 inches long.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
