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Palmated   Listen
adjective
Palmated, Palmate  adj.  
1.
Having the shape of the hand; resembling a hand with the fingers spread.
2.
(Bot.) Spreading from the apex of a petiole, as the divisions of a leaf, or leaflets, so as to resemble the hand with outspread fingers.
3.
(Zool.)
(a)
Having the anterior toes united by a web, as in most swimming birds; webbed.
(b)
Having the distal portion broad, flat, and more or less divided into lobes; said of certain corals, antlers, etc.






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"Palmated" Quotes from Famous Books



... arrow-head shaped leaves; huge ferns shot out here and there up the stems to the topmost branches. Many of the trees had leaves as delicately cut as those of the graceful mimosa, while others had large palmate leaves, and ...
— On the Banks of the Amazon • W.H.G. Kingston



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