Palmate

Quick meaning: Palmate is an adjective meaning (botany, of leaves) Having more than three leaflets arising from a common point, often in the form of a fan.

Meaning

(botany, of leaves) Having more than three leaflets arising from a common point, often in the form of a fan.

More Meanings

1. (chemistry) Any salt or ester of ricinoleic acid (formerly called palmic acid); a ricinoleate.
2. (chiefly botany) Having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point.
3. (rare) Having webbed appendage; palmated.
4. (rare) Hand-like; shaped like a hand with extended fingers

Example Sentences

The Palmate Newt is a common Western European amphibian.

Although palmate leaves are typical of most Western maples, a number of species have leaves without lobes.

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.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for palmate

Depending on context, synonyms include compound, webbed.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include webbed, compound, venation, palmatilobate, palmatipartite, pinnate.

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