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Same as digitate, 2. Animals multifidous, or such as are digitated, or have several divisions in their feet. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., vi. 6.

I saw one or two specimens of the bread-fruit tree, with its digitated foliage, and several kinds of pine-apple plants — Across Unknown South America
Dog. cat, and _tiger's_ feet are digitated. " — The Grammar of English Grammars
-- '_Dogs', cats'_, and _tigers'_ feet are digitated. '" — The Grammar of English Grammars
In Brazil I have often admired the varied beauty of the bananas, palms, and orange-trees contrasted together; and here we also have the bread-fruit, conspicuous from its large, glossy, and deeply digitated leaf. — The Voyage of the Beagle
Something curious to the unaccustomed eye, these curling, clutching, digitated members raised above their usual range and common avocations, suddenly endowed with speech, and holding forth there in the silent upper air for the whole human economy. — The Convert