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palmate
English
Etymology
From Latin palm?tus (“hand-shaped”), by extension (as palma acquired the meaning "palm tree"), "palm-leaf shaped".
Adjective
palmate (not comparable)
- (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.
- (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.
- 1909, Eleanor Stockhouse Atkinson, "In the Tree Tops", The How and Why Library.
- (rare) Having webbed appendage; palmated.
- The Palmate Newt is a common Western European amphibian.
- (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)
- (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
- feminine plural of palmato
Latin
Verb
palm?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of palm?
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palpate
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin palp?tus, perfect passive participle of palp? (“touch softly”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: p?l?p?t, IPA(key): /?pælpe?t/
Verb
palpate (third-person singular simple present palpates, present participle palpating, simple past and past participle palpated)
- To examine or otherwise explore through touch, particularly (medicine) in reference to an area or organ of the human body.
- 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, The New Yorker, "The Mountains of Pi":
- David reached inside with his fingers and palpated a logic board.
- I palpated his expired heart.
- 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, The New Yorker, "The Mountains of Pi":
Synonyms
- touch
Translations
Adjective
palpate (not comparable)
- Of palp, or having palp.
Related terms
- palp
- palpability
- palpable
- palpation
- palpiform
- palpitate
- palpitation
Further reading
- palpate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- palpate at OneLook Dictionary Search
Italian
Noun
palpate f
- plural of palpata
Verb
palpate
- second-person plural present indicative of palpare
- second-person plural imperative of palpare
- feminine plural of palpato
Latin
Verb
palp?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of palp?
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