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pedate

[ ped-eyt ]

adjective

  1. having a foot or feet.
  2. resembling a foot.
  3. having divisions like toes.
  4. Botany. (of a leaf ) palmately parted or divided with the lateral lobes or divisions cleft or divided.


pedate

/ ˈpɛdeɪt /

adjective

  1. (of a plant leaf) divided into several lobes arising at a common point, the lobes often being stalked and the lateral lobes sometimes divided into smaller lobes
  2. zoology having or resembling a foot

    a pedate appendage

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈpedately, adverb
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Other Words From

  • pedate·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of pedate1

From the Latin word pedātus, dating back to 1745–55. See ped- 2, -ate 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of pedate1

C18: from Latin pedātus equipped with feet, from pēs foot
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Example Sentences

The leaves spring from the top of the root-stock, and are smooth, distinctly pedate, dark-green above, and lighter below, with 7 to 9 segments and long petioles.

Pistils 3–10, sessile, forming coriaceous many-seeded pods.—Perennial herbs, with ample palmate or pedate leaves, and large, solitary, nodding, early vernal flowers.

Pedat′ifid, divided in a pedate manner, but having the divisions connected at the base.—Combination pedal, a metal pedal in organs controlling several stops at once.

The leaves are very large, pedate, dentate, and distinctly veined.

The foliage is smaller than that of most kinds; the leaves are radical, rather short-stalked, pedate, and divisions narrow; they are of a leathery substance and a dark green colour.

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