palmate
adjective
shaped like an open palm or like a hand with the fingers extended, as a leaf or an antler.
palmately
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a word derived from
palmate.
Example Sentences
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Trees, with alternate palmately lobed leaves, sheathing stipules, and monœcious flowers in separate globose heads.
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
Leaves.—Alternate; palmately three- to five-cleft, three to five inches across.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Stipules not scarious, leaves palmately cleft or palmately compound.
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
Seed-coat brittle, grooved.—Leaves alternate, generally palmately lobed, with stipules.
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
Pistils 1–4; the slender style arising from near the base; achenes included in the tube of the persistent calyx.—Low herbs, with palmately lobed or compound leaves, and small corymbed greenish flowers.
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
