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
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Botanical Description.—A large tree of the first order with digitate leaves of 6–8 leaflets, broad, oval, very acute, tough, glabrous, growing on a long common petiole.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
Racemes digitate, rarely solitary, spikelets all alike in form but differing in sex.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
Embryo simply curved.—A tall roughish annual, with digitate leaves of 5–7 linear-lanceolate coarsely toothed leaflets, the upper alternate; the inner bark of very tough fibres.
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
Tracing the widening female duct onwards we now come to the openings of the digitate accessory glands d, d, which probably assist in the formation of the egg-capsule.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
Leaves alternate, compound, digitate, caducous; leaflets 5–7 with long common petiole.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
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