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Having fingerlike parts
Answer for the clue "Having fingerlike parts ", 8 letters:
digitate
Word definitions for digitate in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 Having digits, fingers or things shaped like fingers; fingerlike 2 (context botany English) Having parts that spread out from a common point; palmate v To point out as with the finger.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. resembling a finger; "digitate leaves of the horse chestnut" [syn: fingerlike ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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).
Usage examples of digitate.
Their bases are united into a single, rather narrow pedicel, and they thus appear like a great digitate expansion at one end of the bladder.
The African trees have a delicate foliage, mostly digitate, so that when you have cleared away the dense undergrowth, so to say hollowing out the forest, the light is like the light in a beechwood in May at home, when the leaves are just unfolded, or hardly unfolded yet.