Palmate Definition

pălmāt, päl-, pämāt
adjective
Shaped like a hand with the fingers spread.
Webster's New World
Having three or more veins, leaflets, or lobes radiating from one point; digitate.
A palmate leaf.
American Heritage Medicine
Having webbing that connects the three front toes, as the feet of many waterbirds.
American Heritage Medicine
Synonyms:
  • palm-shaped
noun

(chemistry) A salt or ester of ricinoleic acid (formerly called palmic acid); a ricinoleate.

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Other Word Forms of Palmate

Noun

Singular:
palmate
Plural:
palmates

Origin of Palmate

  • From Latin palmatus (“hand-shaped"), by extension (as palma acquired the meaning "palm tree"), "palm-leaf shaped".

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Palmate Sentence Examples

  • Palmate palm trees are noted for having fan-like leaves.

  • Adiantum; the lowest vein in each half of the lamina follows a course parallel to the edge, and gives off numerous branches, which fork repeatedly as they spread in a palmate manner towards the leaf margin.

  • Smooth and palmate newts rarely live beyond around five years.

  • The leaf in this case is multicostate and the venation palmate.

  • The recently discovered species, Sphenophyllum fertile, while resembling Bowmanites Romeri in its peltate, bisporangiate sporangiophores, is peculiar in the fact that both dorsal and ventral lobes of the sporophyll were fertile, dividing in a palmate manner into several branches, each of which constitutes a sporangiophore.

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Words Starting With

PPAPAL

Words Ending With

ETEATE

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