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pedate
[ ped-eyt ]
adjective
- having a foot or feet.
- resembling a foot.
- having divisions like toes.
- Botany. (of a leaf ) palmately parted or divided with the lateral lobes or divisions cleft or divided.
pedate
/ ˈpɛdeɪt /
adjective
- (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
- zoology having or resembling a foot
a pedate appendage
Derived Forms
- ˈpedately, adverb
Other Words From
- pedate·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of pedate1
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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