palmate

[ pal-meyt, -mit, pahl-, pah-meyt ]

/ ˈpæl meɪt, -mɪt, ˈpɑl-, ˈpɑ meɪt /

adjective

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.

Words nearby palmate

palmar fibromatosis, palmar interosseous muscle, palmar metacarpal vein, palmary, palmas, palmate, palmate fold, palmation, palmatisect, palmcorder, palmdale

Often pal·mat·ed [pal-mey-tid, pahl- pah-mey-] /ˈpæl meɪ tɪd, ˈpɑl- ˈpɑ meɪ-/.

Origin of palmate

First recorded in 1750–60, palmate is from the Latin word palmātus shaped like a palm. See palm¹, -ate¹

OTHER WORDS FROM palmate

pal·mate·ly, adverbsub·pal·mate, adjectivesub·pal·mat·ed, adjective

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Examples from the Web for palmate

Passage of pinnate to palmate leaves in horse-chesnut 439 'chesnut may be old spelling for chestnut?'
Vegetable Teratology|Maxwell T. Masters
Sometimes we find syndactylism, or palmate fingers, a continuation of the interdigital skin to the second phalanx.
Criminal Man|Gina Lombroso-Ferrero
The summit is palmate, having from two to five branches from its back part, which are curved inward (c).
Lachesis Lapponica|Carl von Linn
All the toes are connected by a palmate web, and the innermost has, besides, a marginal longitudinal membrane.
Lachesis Lapponica|Carl von Linn

Leaves with palmate veining are palmately lobed or notched; those with pinnate veining are pinnately lobed or notched.
Trees of the Northern United States|Austin C. Apgar

British Dictionary definitions for palmate

palmate

palmated

/ (ˈpælmeɪt, -mɪt) /

adjective

shaped like an open handpalmate antlers

botany having more than three lobes or segments that spread out from a common pointpalmate leaves

(of the feet of most water birds) having three toes connected by a web

Word Origin for palmate

C18: from Latin palmatus, from palma palm; see palm ²

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Medicine definitions for palmate

palmate

[ păl′māt′, päl′-, pä′māt′ ]

adj.

Having a shape similar to that of a hand with the fingers extended.

Science definitions for palmate

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.