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

Spikes 1 to 5 inches long, digitate, erect.

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

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 spikelets are lanceolate, 2- to 3-nate, in digitate or racemose spikes, jointed on the pedicels but not thickened at the base, 1-flowered.

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

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 Gray, Asa

Leaves alternate, compound, digitate, caducous; leaflets 5–7 with long common petiole.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers