palmate.
Having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point.
Meaning & usage
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.
Having webbed appendage; palmated.
The Palmate Newt is a common Western European amphibian.
Hand-like; shaped like a hand with extended fingers
Where this word comes from
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.
Any salt or ester of ricinoleic acid (formerly called palmic acid); a ricinoleate.
Where this word comes from
From palmic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
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