Digitate

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  digitate \dig"i*tate\, v. t. [LL. digitatus, p. p. of digitare,
     fr. L. digitus. See {Digit}.]
     To point out as with the finger. [R.] --Robinson (Eudoxa).
     Digitate

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Digitate \Dig"i*tate\, Digitated \Dig"i*ta`ted\, a. [L.
     digitatus having fingers.] (Bot.)
     Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the
     hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Also, in
     general, characterized by digitation. -- {Dig"i*tate*ly},
     adv.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  digitate
       adj : resembling a finger; "digitate leaves of the horse chestnut"
             [syn: {fingerlike}]