digitate

[ dij-i-teyt ]

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.

digitate

/ ˈdɪdʒɪˌteɪt /

adjective

1. (of compound leaves) having the leaflets in the form of a spread hand
2. (of animals) having digits or corresponding parts

Derived Forms

• ˈdigiˌtately, adverb
• ˌdigiˈtation, noun

Other Words From

• dig·i·tate·ly adverb
• mul·ti·dig·i·tate adjective
• un·dig·i·tat·ed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of digitate¹

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

Example Sentences

Embryo simply curved.—A tall roughish annual, with digitate leaves of 5–7 linear-lanceolate coarsely toothed leaflets, the upper alternate; the inner bark of very tough fibres.

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Tracing the widening female duct onwards we now come to the openings of the digitate accessory glands d, d, which probably assist in the formation of the egg-capsule.

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The sponge is either devoid of branches or produces irregular, compressed, and often digitate processes, sometimes of considerable length and delicacy.

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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.

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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.

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