Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a palmate manner; so as to be palmate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a palmate manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
palmate fashion.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a palmate manner
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Examples
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Fatsia japonica is a striking ivy shrub with broad, palmately divided leaves that occurs on islands of the south coast.
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(Samburu: naisichoi), a stout plant with palmately veined leaves and relatively larger basal lobes.
Chapter 7 1999
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The leaves are petiolate, often cordate, with strongly marked reticulate veining (unusual for a monocotyledon), sometimes lobed, occasionally palmately compound.
Chapter 37 1987
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-- Trees 15° in height, trunk covered with large leaf scars, wood soft and brittle, the long-petioled, palmately-lobed leaves growing in a crown and giving the tree the general appearance of
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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_Leaves: _ Rounded, deeply and palmately lobed, the 5 to 9 lobes often cleft.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891
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_Leaves: _ Opposite, on slender petioles; lower ones rounded, 2 to 4 in. broad, palmately cut into 2 to 5 lobes; upper leaves narrower, 3-cleft or 3-toothed.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891
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It is also [[palmately]] lobed, which means the leaf has five "arms."
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It is also palmately lobed, which means the leaf has five "arms."
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Quercus (oaks) palmately lobed: indented with the indentations reaching to the center, such as
Wikibooks - Recent changes [en] 196.46.245.35 2010
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It is also palmately lobed, which means the leaf has five "arms."
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