digitate

[ dij-i-teyt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

Zoology. having digits or digitlike processes.
Botany. having radiating divisions or leaflets resembling the fingers of a hand.
like a digit or finger.

digitate

/ ˈdɪdʒɪˌteɪt /

Fisrt recorded in 1655–65; from Latin digitātus; digit, -ate ¹

A year or two since, a man brought from Ohio to the University of Iowa an innocent five-parted, digitate, black fungus.

Its leaves are digitate and long-stalked, with five obovate, serrate, hairy leaflets.

It is a tall evergreen with irregular branches; its digitate leaves are dark and glossy.

Leaves alternate, compound, digitate, caducous; leaflets 5–7 with long common petiole.

Leaves opposite, digitate; leaflets serrate, straight-veined, like a Chestnut-leaf.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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