Digitate

Quick meaning: Digitate is an adjective meaning Having digits, fingers or things shaped like fingers; fingerlike.

Meaning

Having digits, fingers or things shaped like fingers; fingerlike.

More Meanings

1. (botany, anatomy) Having parts that spread out from a common point in a finger-like manner.
2. (botany, anatomy) To spread out from a common point in a finger-like manner.
3. (obsolete) To point out as with one's finger, indicate.

Example Sentences

The supine resting on Water onely by retention of Air[…]doth digitate a reason.

But what is most worthy of notice is, that the greater number of muscular fibres arising from the coracoid and radio-ulnar bones form a pectoral muscle, superficial to the other fibres of the great lateral, and digitating with them along the side of the fish opposite the extremities of the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth ribs.

Word Forms

• digitates
• digitating
• digitated

Synonyms for digitate

Depending on context, synonyms include fingered, fingerlike.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fingerlike, fingered, dermatosis, digammated, digammate, diacritic.

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