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Definition of Digitate
1. Adjective. Resembling a finger. "Digitate leaves of the horse chestnut"
Definition of Digitate
1. v. t. To point out as with the finger.
2. a. Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Also, in general, characterized by digitation.
Definition of Digitate
1. Adjective. Having digits, fingers or things shaped like fingers; fingerlike ¹
2. Adjective. (botany) Having parts that spread out from a common point; palmate ¹
3. Verb. To point out as with the finger. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Digitate
1. having digits [adj]
Medical Definition of Digitate
1. Branching from the main stem or stalk like the fingers of a hand. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Digitate
Literary usage of Digitate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and ...by Liberty Hyde Bailey by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"By Bureau and by Schumann, Tabebuia is limited to the 5 or 6 species with simple
Ivs., and the species with digitate Ivs. are referred to Tecoma, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by William Thomas Brande, George William Cox (1867)
"digitate (Lat. digitatus, having fingers). In Botany, the term used when several
distinct leaflets radiate from the end of a leaf-stalk, ..."
3. A General System of Botany Descriptive and Analytical: In Two Parts by Emmanuel Le Maout, Joseph Decaisne, Joseph Dalton Hooker (1876)
"... sometimes digitate with 3-9 leaflets. Stipules free, deciduous, rarely folia-
ceous and persistent, very rarely 0 ..."
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