About The Word Digitate
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Digitate
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What's The Definition Of Digitate?
[adj] resembling a finger; "digitate leaves of the horse chestnut"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Digitate: fingered | fingerlike Related Terms | Find terms related to Digitate: See Also | Digitate In Webster's Dictionary \Dig"i*tate\, v. t. [LL. digitatus, p. p. of digitare,
fr. L. digitus. See {Digit}.]
To point out as with the finger. [R.] --Robinson (Eudoxa).
\Dig"i*tate\, Digitated \Dig"i*ta`ted\, a. [L. digitatus having fingers.] (Bot.) Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Also, in general, characterized by digitation. -- {Dig"i*tate*ly}, adv. |
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