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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state of being palmate.
- noun A palmate structure or form.
- noun A division or part of a palmate structure.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being palmate; a palmate figure or formation; digitation.
- noun Webbing, as of the foot a palmiped bird. Compare
semipalmation , totipalmation, palama.
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But there are also adaptive and purely analogical homologies, such as the interdigital palmation of aquatic birds, amphibians and mammals.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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His antlers, whose symmetry and palmation seemed perfect, were estimated to have a spread of sixty inches at least.
Kings in Exile Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901
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