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Shaped like a hand with the fingers spread
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palmate
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Word definitions for palmate in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. (of the feet of water birds) having three toes connected by a thin fold of skin of a leaf shape; having leaflets or lobes radiating from a common point [syn: palm-shaped ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context chiefly botany English) Having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point. 2 (context botany English) (qualifier: leaves) Having more than three leaflets arising from a common point, often in the form of a fan. 3 (context rare ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ricinoleate \Ric`in*o"le*ate\, n. (Chem.) A salt of ricinoleic acid; -- formerly called palmate .
Usage examples of palmate.
By the time Mother Love and I rode down to join them, the beast was dead, its tremendous body prostrate on the grass but its head propped up by its big soft snout and one immense palmate antler.
They had suddenly come upon a stag with an eleven-foot rack of palmate antlers.
His spear thrower had a giant deer with huge palmate antlers, and she marveled at it as well.
Ayla watched the ungainly-seeming animal with the overhanging nose and large palmate antlers, still in velvet, walking into the marsh.
A small herd of giant deer, whose extravagant palmate antlers made the large rack of the moose seem small, were feeding along the outer fringe of woolly willows clustered in the damp lowland near the water.
Giant deer, bedecked with stately racks of immense palmate antlers, grazed alongside aurochs, the splendid wild forerunners of herds of placid domestic cattle, which were nearly as huge as the massive bison that sported such enormous horns.
Shortly after they started out, he was pleased to find the skull of a giant deer that had died before the large palmate antlers were shed, giving him two of equal size.
Some shot straight up without a branch for a hundred feet and then splayed out into a broad palmate top.
The front rank was trotting to keep up with the running Indowy, wielding their long palmate blades in either hand.
At that the other God King swung his saucer around to run but Mike flipped the palmate blade off his back and hurled it entirely through its thorax with all the rage in the world.
Sengar sat with three other noble-born patriarchs around a game board fashioned from a huge palmate antler, the playing pieces carved from ivory and jade.
The officer came back and directed her to sit by the roadside in the mottled shadow of a small, bent tree, some odd northern species with wide palmate leaves.
Kullervo ate well now and the elk thrust his palmate antlers up among the new branches to siphon off the tender shoots with that curious proboscis of upper lip, snuffling content.
Around her and high above, the broad palmate leaves brushed together, making a sound like encouraging whispers.
Be this as it may, the beast came hurtling down on me lip deep in the waves, a mighty brown head with pricked ears that flicked the water from them now and then, small bright eyes set far back, and wide palmated antlers on a mighty forehead, like the dead branches of a tree.