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Palmate   Listen
adjective
Palmated, Palmate  adj.  
1.
Having the shape of the hand; resembling a hand with the fingers spread.
2.
(Bot.) Spreading from the apex of a petiole, as the divisions of a leaf, or leaflets, so as to resemble the hand with outspread fingers.
3.
(Zool.)
(a)
Having the anterior toes united by a web, as in most swimming birds; webbed.
(b)
Having the distal portion broad, flat, and more or less divided into lobes; said of certain corals, antlers, etc.


noun
Palmate  n.  (Chem.) A salt of palmic acid; a ricinoleate. (Obsoles.)





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"Palmate" Quotes from Famous Books



... rarely pink or white, butterfly-shaped; corolla consisting of standard, wings, and keel; about 1/2 in. long, borne in a long raceme at end of stem; calyx 2-lipped, deeply toothed. Stem: Erect, branching, leafy, 1 to 2 ft. high. Leaves: Palmate, compounded of from 7 to 11 (usually 8) leaflets. Fruit: A broad, flat, very hairy pod, 1-1/2 in. long, and ...
— Wild Flowers Worth Knowing • Neltje Blanchan et al
... every shell which crawled on the white sand at her feet, every rock-fish which played in and out of the crannies, and stared at her with its broad bright eyes; while the great palmate oarweeds which waved along the chasm, half-seen in the glimmering water, seemed to beckon her down with long brown hands to a grave amid their chilly bowers. She turned to flee; but she had gone too far now to retreat; hastily dipping her head three ...
— Westward Ho! • Charles Kingsley
... dark-green arrow-head shaped leaves; huge ferns shot out here and there up the stems to the topmost branches. Many of the trees had leaves as delicately cut as those of the graceful mimosa, while others had large palmate leaves, and others, again, oval ...
— On the Banks of the Amazon • W.H.G. Kingston


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