digitate

American  

[dij-i-teyt] / ˈdɪdʒ ɪˌteɪt /

Also digitated

adjective

1. Zoology. having digits or digitlike processes.

2. Botany. having radiating divisions or leaflets resembling the fingers of a hand.

3. like a digit or finger.

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digitate British  

/ ˈdɪdʒɪˌteɪt /

adjective

1. (of compound leaves) having the leaflets in the form of a spread hand

2. (of animals) having digits or corresponding parts

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Other Word Forms

• digitately adverb
• digitation noun
• multidigitate adjective
• undigitated adjective

Etymology

Origin of digitate

Fisrt recorded in 1655–65; from Latin digitātus; digit, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

The inflorescence consists of spikes, or spiciform racemes, solitary or digitate, and in some it is paniculate.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

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

A bastard Hellebore, which is foetidus, or, "stinking," and is known to rustics as Bearsfoot, because of its digitate leaves, grows frequently near houses in this country, though a doubtful native.

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas

Racemes digitate, rarely solitary, spikelets all alike in form but differing in sex.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

The inflorescence consists of two to eight smooth, digitate, green or purplish spikes, 1 to 3 inches long; rachis is slender, compressed or angular, scaberulous.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.