Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having digits or fingerlike projections.
- adjective Botany Having distinct parts arising from a common point or center; palmate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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 .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To point out as with the finger.
- adjective (Bot.) Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Also, in general, characterized by digitation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having
digits ,fingers or things shaped like fingers;fingerlike - adjective botany Having parts that spread out from a common point;
palmate - verb To point out as with the finger.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective resembling a finger
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
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LEAVES: Large, digitate or deeply digitately lobed into 5-7 segments.
Chapter 7 1999
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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.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Inflorescence is a panicle consisting of digitate or whorled, slender or stout spike-like racemes.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The inflorescence consists of spikes, or spiciform racemes, solitary or digitate, and in some it is paniculate.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Spikelets many, dissimilar, in solitary, digitate or fascicled racemes or spikes; first glume not sunk in the hollow of the rachis.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The inflorescence consists of solitary, binate, digitate, or panicled racemes.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Inflorescence digitate; glumes three with a minute glume; nerves of second glume five to seven, straight and prominent 2.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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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.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _spikes_ are elongate, digitate, 2 to 7, 2 to 5 inches long, all in
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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