different between palmate vs digitate

English

Etymology

From Latin palm?tus (“hand-shaped”), by extension (as palma acquired the meaning "palm tree"), "palm-leaf shaped".

Adjective

palmate (not comparable)

1. (chiefly botany) 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.

2. (botany) (leaves) Having more than three leaflets arising from a common point, often in the form of a fan.
   • 1909, Eleanor Stockhouse Atkinson, "In the Tree Tops", The How and Why Library.

     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.

3. (rare) Having webbed appendage; palmated.

   The Palmate Newt is a common Western European amphibian.

4. (rare) Hand-like; shaped like a hand with extended fingers

Usage notes

• The word is rare outside of technical writing, and hardly ever qualify things other than leaves.
• A compound leaf with more than three leaflets (trifoliate) radiating from the same point is more usually called palmate or palmately compound to avoid ambiguity.
• While "palmated" is a more usual term when referring to webbed appendages. "Palmate" is often found in zoological nomenclature as the Latin term for both meanings is palmatus.

Derived terms

• totipalmate

Translations

See also

• pinnate

Noun

palmate (plural palmates)

1. (chemistry) A salt or ester of ricinoleic acid (formerly called palmic acid); a ricinoleate.

Usage notes

• Used primarily as part of the International Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients

Anagrams

• lampate, pelmata

Italian

Adjective

palmate

1. feminine plural of palmato

Latin

Verb

palm?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of palm?

English

Etymology

From Latin digit?tus for the adjective and digit?re for the verb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?d??t?t/ (adjective)
• IPA^(key): /?d?d??te?t/ (verb)

Adjective

digitate (not comparable)

1. Having digits, fingers or things shaped like fingers; fingerlike
2. (botany, anatomy) Having parts that spread out from a common point in a finger-like manner.

Derived terms

• subdigitate

Translations

See also

• palmate

Verb

digitate (third-person singular simple present digitates, present participle digitating, simple past and past participle digitated)

1. To point out as with the finger.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Robinson (Eudoxa) to this entry?)

2. (botany, anatomy) To spread out from a common point in a finger-like manner.

Translations

Italian

Verb

digitate

1. second-person plural present indicative of digitare
2. second-person plural imperative of digitare
3. feminine plural of digitato

Latin

Adjective

digit?te

1. vocative masculine singular of digit?tus