palmate

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English

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Etymology

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

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Adjective

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palmate (not comparable)

Four palmate (2) palm leaves.
  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, of 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”, in 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

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  • The word is rare outside of technical writing, and hardly ever qualifies 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.

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Noun

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palmate (plural palmates)

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

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Italian

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Adjective

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palmate

  1. feminine plural of palmato

Latin

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Verb

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palmāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of palmō

Spanish

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Verb

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palmate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of palmar combined with te