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adjective

Palmated, Palmate adj.

Having the shape of the hand; resembling a hand with the fingers spread.

(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.

(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

... 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

... together of the same kind, were now far away above us, in another world as it were. We could only see at times, where there was a break above, the tracery of the foliage against the clear blue sky. Sometimes the leaves were palmate, or of the shape of large outstretched hands; at others finely cut or feathery like the leaves of Mimosae. Below, the tree trunks were everywhere linked together by sipos; the woody flexible stems of climbing and creeping trees, whose foliage is far away ...

— The Beauties of Nature - and the Wonders of the World We Live In • Sir John Lubbock

... broader and the snout less prolonged, and the canine teeth of the under jaw, instead of being received into foramina in the upper, as in the crocodile, fit into furrows on each side of it. The legs of the alligator, too, are not denticulated, and the feet are only semi-palmate. ...

— Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon • J. Emerson Tennent

... the evil spirit haunting about him, he would have joined in Lucia's admiration of the beautiful creature, as it dropped into the foam from its narrow ledge, with its fan of palmate leaves bright green against the black mosses of the rock, and its golden petals glowing like a tiny sun in the darkness of the chasm: as ...

— Two Years Ago, Volume II. • 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