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Webster 1828 Edition

Digitate

DIGITATE

, DIGITATED,
Adj.
In botany, a digitate leaf is one which branches into several distinct leaflets like fingers; or when a simple, undivided petiole connects several leaflets at the end of it.

Definition 2024

digitate

digitate

English

Adjective

digitate ‎(not comparable)

  1. Having digits, fingers or things shaped like fingers; fingerlike
  2. (botany) Having parts that spread out from a common point; palmate

Verb

digitate ‎(third-person singular simple present digitates, present participle digitating, simple past and past participle digitated)

  1. To point out as with the finger.
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Italian

Verb

digitate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of digitare
  2. second-person plural imperative of digitare
  3. feminine plural of digitato

Latin

Adjective

digitāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of digitātus

Etymology

From Latin digitātus

Pronunciation

  • (adjective) IPA(key): /ˈdɪdʒɪtət/
  • (verb) IPA(key): /ˈdɪdʒɪteɪt/

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