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Definition of Palmate leaf
1. Noun. A leaf resembling an open hand; having lobes radiating from a common point.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Palmate Leaf
Literary usage of Palmate leaf
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1862)
"Again, in the palmate leaf there is an arrest of development in the portions of
... and thus the palmate leaf may bo regarded as a contracted pinnate leaf. ..."
2. Botany of the Southern States by John Darby (1860)
"72.) 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. ..."
3. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1878)
"... since they are all crowded together on the end of the main leaf-stalk. FIG.
129. palmate leaf of five leaflets, of the Sweet Buckeye. ..."
4. Gray's Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology: Illustrated by Over 360 by Asa Gray (1877)
"And such a simple five-lobed leaf as that of the Sugar-Maple, if more cut, so as
to separate the parts, would produce a palmate leaf of five leaflets, ..."
5. Botany for Young People and Common Schools: How Plants Grow, a Simple by Asa Gray (1859)
"palmate leaf, of 5 leaflets. three leaflets. 149. Palmate leaves generally have
few leaflets; ... Common Clover has a palmate leaf of three leaflets (Fig. ..."
6. A Dictionary of terms used in medicine and the collateral sciences by Richard Dennis Hoblyn (1900)
"A variety of the palmate leaf, in which the lobes are divided as far down as half
the breadth of the leaf. 2. ..."
7. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"At first the development is that of a palmate leaf, the petiole being inserted
at the base of the lamina, and at th«> point of insertion there is an ..."
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