Digitate

Like fingers;


(Of a compound leaf) when the leaflets emerge, diverge from the same point.


Resembling the fingers of a human hand, that is, with various alike structures arising at a general point.


Said of a compound leaf when the leaflets are given off from the apex of the petiole.


Compound with the leaflets attached to the main leaf-stalk like the spokes of an umbrella, or (in the literal sense of the term) like the fingers of a hand. Also used of leaves that are not truly compound but only deeply lobed, described as digitately lobed. Palmate has much the same meaning.


Having fingers or fingerlike projections.


Having finger-like impressions or processes.


Resembling finger-shaped branches.


 


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