palmate
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin palmātus (“hand-shaped”), by extension (as palma acquired the meaning "palm tree"), "palm-leaf shaped".
Adjective
[edit]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, 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.
- (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
[edit]- 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.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]botany: having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point
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botany: having more than three leaflets arising from a common point
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See also
[edit]Noun
[edit]palmate (plural palmates)
- (chemistry) A salt or ester of ricinoleic acid (formerly called palmic acid); a ricinoleate.
Usage notes
[edit]- Used primarily as part of the International Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients
Derived terms
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[edit]Italian
[edit]Adjective
[edit]palmate
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]palmāte
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]palmate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of palmar combined with te
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