Digitate

Word DIGITATE
Character 8
Hyphenation dig i tate
Pronunciations /ˈdɪdʒɪtət/

Definitions and meanings of "Digitate"

What do we mean by digitate?

Having digits or fingerlike projections. adjective

Having distinct parts arising from a common point or center; palmate. adjective

To point out, as if with a finger.

In botany, having deep radiating divisions, like fingers: applied to leaves and roots.

In zoology, characterized by digitation; having or consisting of a set of processes like digits. Also digitated.

To point out as with the finger. transitive verb

Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Also, in general, characterized by digitation. adjective

Having digits, fingers or things shaped like fingers; fingerlike adjective

Having parts that spread out from a common point; palmate adjective

To point out as with the finger. verb

Resembling a finger adjective

To point out as with the finger.

To spread out from a common point in a finger-like manner.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Digitate

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The word "digitate" in example sentences

Australia; a slender stem, about thirty feet in height, gives off a few branches with immense digitate dark and glossy leaves, and long spike-like racemes of small scarlet flowers, a great resort for insects and insect-feeding birds. ❋ Unknown (2003)

LEAVES: Large, digitate or deeply digitately lobed into 5-7 segments. ❋ Unknown (1999)

What similarities in the organisation of man and the digitate mammals, and yet what differences between their attitudes when standing! ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The inflorescence consists of spikes, or spiciform racemes, solitary or digitate, and in some it is paniculate. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The inflorescence consists of spikes, solitary, digitate or fascicled, articulate and fragile; the joints of the floral axis and the pedicels of the pedicelled spikelets are trigonous and hollowed ventrally. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The only further illustrations that it is requisite to give of such changes in this place are those occurring in lobed or compounded leaves, which, from a lengthening of the midrib or central stalk, convert a digitate or palmate leaf into a pinnate one. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

The _inflorescence_ consists of two to eight smooth, digitate, green or purplish spikes, 1 to 3 inches long; _rachis_ is slender, compressed or angular, scaberulous. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

Inflorescence is a panicle consisting of digitate or whorled, slender or stout spike-like racemes. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

Inflorescence digitate; glumes three with a minute glume; nerves of second glume five to seven, straight and prominent 2. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The _inflorescence_ consists of three to five digitate spikes, 3/4 to ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The spikelets are sessile, 3 to 12 flowered, 2 to 3-seriate, secund, laterally compressed and forming digitate whorled or capitate spikes, not joined at the base; rachilla continuous between the flowering glumes. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The stamens are here analogues not of a simple entire leaf, but of a lobed, digitate, or compound leaf, each subdivision bearing its separate anther. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

Spikelets many, dissimilar, in solitary, digitate or fascicled racemes or spikes; first glume not sunk in the hollow of the rachis. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

It is a slender grass with digitate spikes, which have much of the habit of _Digitaria_, but which, on account of the absence of the small outer glume existing in that genus, Mr. Keppist, Librarian of the Linnean Society, of London, refers to _Paspalum_. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

The inflorescence consists of solitary, binate, digitate, or panicled racemes. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

Racemes digitate, rarely solitary, spikelets all alike in form but differing in sex. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The spikelets are lanceolate, 2 - to 3-nate, in digitate or racemose spikes, jointed on the pedicels but not thickened at the base, 1-flowered. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The _spikes_ are elongate, digitate, 2 to 7, 2 to 5 inches long, all in ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

In the adjoining cut the intermediate stages between a palmate or digitate leaf to a pinnate one may be seen. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

Of course I couldn't, for example, discourse with authority upon the heteropterous mictidæ or tell you in what genus or genera the prothorax and femora are digitate; or whether climatic and polymorphic forms of certain diurnal lepidoptera occur within certain boreal limits. ❋ Arthur C. [Illustrator] Becker (1899)

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