palmate en · ADJ · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /ˈpɑmeit/
- (US) audio
- /ˈpɑlmeit/
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.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) 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.
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(not-comparable, of leaves) 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.
1909, Eleanor Stockhouse Atkinson, “In the Tree Tops”, in The How and Why Library:
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(not-comparable, rare) Having webbed appendage; palmated.
The Palmate Newt is a common Western European amphibian.
- (not-comparable, rare) Hand-like; shaped like a hand with extended fingers
Deriveds
palmately · totipalmate · costapalmate · semipalmate · palmation · palmate newt · nonpalmate · bipalmate · subpalmate
Relateds
Translations (11)
fi sormijakoinen (botany: having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point) · fi kourasuoninen (botany: having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point) · de gefingert (botany: having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point) · fi sormiosainen (botany: having more than three leaflets arising from a common point) · ru дланевидный (botany: having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point) · ca palmat (botany: having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point) · ru пальчатый (botany: having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point) · ga palmatach (botany: having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point) · fi sormiliuskainen (botany: having more than three leaflets arising from a common point) · bg длановиден (botany: having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point) · cy palfog (botany: having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point)