palmate
shaped like an open palm or like a hand with the fingers extended, as a leaf or an antler.
Botany. having four or more lobes or leaflets radiating from a single point.
Zoology. web-footed.
Furniture.
decorated with palmettes.
(in furniture of the 17th century) having bands of semicircles enclosing a radiating leaf form.
Origin of palmate
1- Often pal·mat·ed [pal-mey-tid, pahl- pah-mey-] /ˈpæl meɪ tɪd, ˈpɑl- ˈpɑ meɪ-/ .
Other words from palmate
- pal·mate·ly, adverb
- sub·pal·mate, adjective
- sub·pal·mat·ed, adjective
Words Nearby palmate
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How to use palmate in a sentence
The lower leaves of this plant are spinous and very glaucous, and the upper ones palmate.
The Sea Shore | William S. FurneauxThe leaves are generally palmate and hairy; and the blossoms are large, and of a beautiful yellow.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines | Andrew UreThe broad palmate antlers with numerous sharp points sometimes measure 8½ feet or more from tip to tip.
North America | Israel C. RussellThis time Kazan was caught fairly on the broad palmate leaf of the bull's antler, and he was flung back again, half stunned.
Kazan | James Oliver CurwoodThe plant is from six to twelve inches high, with palmate tubers, and mostly radical leaves.
Field and Woodland Plants | William S. Furneaux
British Dictionary definitions for palmate
palmated
/ (ˈpælmeɪt, -mɪt) /
shaped like an open hand: palmate antlers
botany having more than three lobes or segments that spread out from a common point: palmate leaves
(of the feet of most water birds) having three toes connected by a web
Origin of palmate
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Scientific definitions for palmate
[ păl′māt′, päl′- ]
Having a shape similar to that of a hand with the fingers extended. Some kinds of coral and the antlers of moose and certain deer are palmate.
Having three or more veins, leaflets, or lobes radiating from one point. Maples have palmately lobed leaves.
Having webbed toes. The feet of many swimming and diving birds are palmate.
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