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
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Etymology
Origin of digitate
Fisrt recorded in 1655–65; from Latin digitātus; see digit, -ate 1
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Spikes are digitate, 2 to 6, 1/2 to 1-1/2 inches long.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
Multidigitate, mul-ti-dij′i-tāt, adj. having many fingers, toes, or digitate processes.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Spikes 1 to 5 inches long, digitate, erect.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
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
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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