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; see digit, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

In the adjoining cut the intermediate stages between a palmate or digitate leaf to a pinnate one may be seen.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.

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.

Alcyonium digitatum, a pink digitate form popularly known as “dead men’s fingers,” is common in 10-20 fathoms of water off the English coasts.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various

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

The spikelets are sessile, 3 to 12 flowered, 2 to 3-seriate, secund, laterally compressed and forming digitate whorled or capitate spikes, not joined at the base; rachilla continuous between the flowering glumes.

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