palmate
About 0.06 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point.
Although palmate leaves are typical of most Western maples, a number of species have leaves without lobes.
- adjective Having more than three leaflets arising from a common point, often in the form of a fan.
- adjective Having webbed appendage; palmated.
The Palmate Newt is a common Western European amphibian.
- adjective Hand-like; shaped like a hand with extended fingers
- noun Any salt or ester of ricinoleic acid (formerly called palmic acid); a ricinoleate.
Similar words
webbed compound palm-shaped venation palmatilobate palmatipartite palmately compound pinnate palmatisect palmatifid
Often followed by
leaves hairs hair or and venation leaf antlers newt
Word family
palmated palmately palmation palmations
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