digitate

digitate
digitately, adv.
/dij"i tayt'/, adj.
1. Zool. having digits or digitlike processes.
2. Bot. having radiating divisions or leaflets resembling the fingers of a hand. See illus. under palmate.
3. like a digit or finger.
Also, digitated.
[1655-65; < L digitatus. See DIGIT, -ATE1]

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