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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To insert between the fingers; interweave like the joined fingers of the two hands.
  2. To be interwoven; commingle like interlocked fingers.
  3. In anatomy, specifically, to interpose finger-like processes or digitations between similar processes of another part, as one muscle may do to another; inosculate by means of reciprocal serrations: followed by with. Thus, the human serratus magnus muscle interdigitates by several of its serrations with similar processes of the external oblique muscle of the abdomen.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To fold or lock together, as when the fingers of one hand are laced between those of the other.
  2. v. intransitive To become folded or locked together, like the fingers of a folded hand.
  3. v. transitive, figuratively To intermingle; to present alternately items from one group and then another.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. rare To interweave.
  2. v. To interlock, as the fingers of two hands that are joined; to be interwoven; to commingle.

Etymologies

  1. inter- +‎ digitate (Wiktionary)

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