Definition of palmate

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Palmate (a.) Alt. of Palmate.

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Palmatilobed :: Palmatilobed (a.) Palmate, with the divisions separated less than halfway to the common center..
Palmately :: Palmately (adv.) In a palmate manner.
Palmated :: Palmated (a.) Having the shape of the hand; resembling a hand with the fingers spread.
Ringneck :: Ringneck (n.) Any one of several species of small plovers of the genus Aegialitis, having a ring around the neck. The ring is black in summer, but becomes brown or gray in winter. The semipalmated plover (Ae. semipalmata) and the piping plover (Ae. meloda) are common North American species. Called also ring plover, and ring-necked plover..
Fin-footed :: Fin-footed (a.) Having palmate feet.
Fissipalmate :: Fissipalmate (a.) Semipalmate and loboped, as a grebe's foot. See Illust. under Aves..
Palmatisected :: Palmatisected (a.) Divided, as a palmate leaf, down to the midrib, so that the parenchyma is interrupted..
Palmated :: Palmated (a.) Having the anterior toes united by a web, as in most swimming birds; webbed..
Moose :: Moose (n.) A large cervine mammal (Alces machlis, or A. Americanus), native of the Northern United States and Canada. The adult male is about as large as a horse, and has very large, palmate antlers. It closely resembles the European elk, and by many zoologists is considered the same species. See Elk..
Staghound :: Stag-horned (a.) Having the mandibles large and palmate, or branched somewhat like the antlers of a stag; -- said of certain beetles..
Willet :: Willet (n.) A large North American snipe (Symphemia semipalmata); -- called also pill-willet, will-willet, semipalmated tattler, or snipe, duck snipe, and stone curlew..
Totipalmi :: Totipalmi (n.pl.) A division of swimming birds including those that have totipalmate feet.
Palmate :: Palmate (n.) A salt of palmic acid; a ricinoleate.
Ricinoleate :: Ricinoleate (n.) A salt of ricinoleic acid; -- formerly called palmate.
Papaw :: Papaw (n.) A tree (Carica Papaya) of tropical America, belonging to the order Passifloreae. It has a soft, spongy stem, eighteen or twenty feet high, crowned with a tuft of large, long-stalked, palmately lobed leaves. The milky juice of the plant is said to have the property of making meat tender. Also, its dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit, which is eaten both raw and cooked or pickled..
Pedate :: Pedate (a.) Palmate, with the lateral lobes cleft into two or more segments; -- said of a leaf..
Totipalmate :: Totipalmate (a.) Having all four toes united by a web; -- said of certain sea birds, as the pelican and the gannet. See Illust. under Aves..
Palmated :: Palmated (a.) Spreading from the apex of a petiole, as the divisions of a leaf, or leaflets, so as to resemble the hand with outspread fingers..
Reindeer :: Reindeer (n.) Any ruminant of the genus Rangifer, of the Deer family, found in the colder parts of both the Eastern and Western hemispheres, and having long irregularly branched antlers, with the brow tines palmate..
Oared :: Oared (a.) Totipalmate; -- said of the feet of certain birds. See Illust. of Aves.
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