palmate
adjective
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Pronunciation: /ˈpɑmeit/ / /ˈpɑlmeit/
adj
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin palmātus (“hand-shaped, palm-leaf shaped”), from palma (“palm, palm-tree”). Equivalent to palm + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Compare French palmé.
- Having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point.
“Although palmate leaves are typical of most Western maples, a number of species have leaves without lobes.”
- Having more than three leaflets arising from a common point, often in the form of a fan.
“The horse chestnut, buckeye and hickory trees have palmate leaves. That is, the broad oval leaflets are all set around the tip of a common leaf stem, spreading in a circle, like the ribs of a palm leaf fan.”
- Having webbed appendage; palmated.
“The Palmate Newt is a common Western European amphibian.”
- Hand-like; shaped like a hand with extended fingers
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree English palmic acid English -ate English palmate From palmic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
- Any salt or ester of ricinoleic acid (formerly called palmic acid); a ricinoleate.