pedate

American  

[ped-eyt] / ˈpɛd eɪt /

adjective

1. having a foot or feet.

2. resembling a foot.

3. having divisions like toes.

4. Botany. (of a leaf ) palmately parted or divided with the lateral lobes or divisions cleft or divided.

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pedate British  

/ ˈpɛdeɪt /

adjective

1. (of a plant leaf) divided into several lobes arising at a common point, the lobes often being stalked and the lateral lobes sometimes divided into smaller lobes

2. zoology having or resembling a foot

   a pedate appendage

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Other Word Forms

• pedately adverb

Etymology

Origin of pedate

From the Latin word pedātus, dating back to 1745–55. See ped- ², -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Root-leaves glabrous, pedate; calyx spreading, greenish.—Has been found wild on Long Island, in Penn., and W. Va.

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 Gray, Asa

Pistils 3–10, sessile, forming coriaceous many-seeded pods.—Perennial herbs, with ample palmate or pedate leaves, and large, solitary, nodding, early vernal 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 Gray, Asa

The foliage is smaller than that of most kinds; the leaves are radical, rather short-stalked, pedate, and divisions narrow; they are of a leathery substance and a dark green colour.

From Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. by Wood, John

The leaves of the root are large and pedate, the divisions wide apart and unevenly toothed; the under sides are distinctly veined with purplish-brown when in a young state.

From Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. by Wood, John

Pedat′ifid, divided in a pedate manner, but having the divisions connected at the base.—Combination pedal, a metal pedal in organs controlling several stops at once.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various