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Definition of Palmate

1. Adjective. (of the feet of water birds) having three toes connected by a thin fold of skin.

2. Adjective. Of a leaf shape; having leaflets or lobes radiating from a common point.

Definition of Palmate

1. n. A salt of palmic acid; a ricinoleate.

2. a. Having the shape of the hand; resembling a hand with the fingers spread.

Definition of Palmate

1. Adjective. (chiefly botany) Having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point. ¹

2. Adjective. (botany) (qualifier leaves) Having more than three leaflets arising from a common point, often in the form of a fan. ¹

3. Adjective. (rare) Having webbed appendage; palmated. ¹

4. Adjective. (rare) Hand-like; shaped like a hand with extended fingers ¹

5. Noun. (chemistry) A salt or ester of ricinoleic acid; a ricinoleate. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Palmate

1. resembling an open hand [adj]

Medical Definition of Palmate

1. Of a leaf, divided into several leaflets which arise at the same point (as with a leaf from a palm tree). (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Palmate

palmar ligaments palmar metacarpal artery palmar metacarpal ligaments palmar metacarpal veins palmar radiocarpal ligament palmar reflex palmar surface palmar surface of fingers palmar ulnocarpal ligament palmaris

palmaris brevis palmaris longus palmarium palmarosa palmary palmate (current term) palmate compound palmate folds palmate leaf palmated

palmately palmately compound palmates palmatifid palmatilobed palmatine palmation palmations palmatipartite palmatisect

Literary usage of Palmate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1862)
"Were it necessary to do FO, many additional instances might be cited leading to the same conclusions, that pinnate and palmate leaves are merely ..."

2. A Class-book of Botany: Designed for Colleges, Academies, and Other by Alphonso Wood (1869)
"... with divergent branches ; ir», palmate, 3—5-parted, with rhomboidal-lanceolate, cut-dentate divisions; galea (upper sepal) exactly conical, rostrate; ..."

3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1885)
"angles to the axis of the branch instead of being parallel to it, have long petioles, and palmate instead of pinnate veins. In this group the mode of growth ..."

4. Botany of the Southern States by John Darby (1860)
"palmate, when divided so as to resemble a hand. (Fig. 71.) Sinuate-lobed, when the depressions are broad at the bottom. fig. 72. Fig. 71. palmate leaf. ..."

5. The Birds of Eastern North America Known to Occur East of the Nineteenth by Charles Barney Cory, Field Museum of Natural History (1899)
"Toes, four; front toes, palmate (full webbed); hind toe, ... Nostrils, tubular, united in one double-barrelled tube; front toes, palmate (full webbed); ..."

6. Trees: A Handbook of Forest-botany for the Woodlands and the Laboratory by Harry Marshall Ward, Percy Groom (1904)
"... and numerous fine branches before ending in the teeth. [Pyrus Aria sometimes has the leaves pinnate at the base (see p. 253).] (2) Leaves palmate ..."

7. The New American Botanist and Florist: Including Lessons in the Structure by Alphonso Wood (1889)
"The prefix pinnate is obviously used in contrast with palmate among palmate-veined forms. 293. Pinnatifid (pinna, feather ..."

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