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
Example Sentences
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The other treatises, on the viviparous and oviparous digitate quadrupeds, on serpents, monsters, and minerals, were prepared for the press by Bartholomew Ambrosinus, another of his successors, and that on trees by Ovid Montalbanus.
From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray
Usually, three digitate processes of cartilaginous material in which additional ossifications may occur arise from the terminus of the shaft.
From The Baculum in Microtine Rodents by Sydney Anderson
Leaves opposite, digitate; leaflets serrate, straight-veined, like a Chestnut-leaf.
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
The corallum of Heliopora is of a blue colour, and has the form of broad, upright, lobed, or digitate masses flattened from side to side.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
What similarities in the organisation of man and the digitate mammals, and yet what differences between their attitudes when standing!
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
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