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digitate
[ dij-i-teyt ]
adjective
- Zoology. having digits or digitlike processes.
- Botany. having radiating divisions or leaflets resembling the fingers of a hand.
- like a digit or finger.
digitate
/ ˈdɪdʒɪˌteɪt /
adjective
- (of compound leaves) having the leaflets in the form of a spread hand
- (of animals) having digits or corresponding parts
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Derived Forms
- ˈdigiˌtately, adverb
- ˌdigiˈtation, noun
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Other Words From
- dig·i·tate·ly adverb
- mul·ti·dig·i·tate adjective
- un·dig·i·tat·ed adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
A year or two since, a man brought from Ohio to the University of Iowa an innocent five-parted, digitate, black fungus.
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Its leaves are digitate and long-stalked, with five obovate, serrate, hairy leaflets.
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It is a tall evergreen with irregular branches; its digitate leaves are dark and glossy.
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Leaves alternate, compound, digitate, caducous; leaflets 5–7 with long common petiole.
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Leaves opposite, digitate; leaflets serrate, straight-veined, like a Chestnut-leaf.
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