Crossword clues for digitate
digitate
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).
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
adj. resembling a finger; "digitate leaves of the horse chestnut" [syn: fingerlike]
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.