digitate
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdɪdʒɪtət/ (adjective)
- IPA(key): /ˈdɪdʒɪteɪt/ (verb)
Adjective
digitate (not comparable)
- Having digits, fingers or things shaped like fingers; fingerlike
- (botany, anatomy) Having parts that spread out from a common point in a finger-like manner.
Derived terms
Translations
having or resembling fingers or being fingerlike
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botany: having leaves divided in finger-like parts
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See also
Verb
digitate (third-person singular simple present digitates, present participle digitating, simple past and past participle digitated)
- To point out as with the finger.
- 1658, John Robinson, Eudoxa:
- The supine resting on Water onely by retention of Air […] doth digitate a reason.
- (botany, anatomy) To spread out from a common point in a finger-like manner.
- 1857 December 23, John Cleland, “On the Skeleton, Muscles, and Viscera of Malapterurus Beninensis”, in Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, volume 1, Edinburgh, published 1858, page 393:
- But what is most worthy of notice is, that the greater number of muscular fibres arising from the coracoid and radio-ulnar bones form a pectoral muscle, superficial to the other fibres of the great lateral, and digitating with them along the side of the fish opposite the extremities of the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth ribs.
Translations
to spread in a finger-like manner.
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Italian
Verb
digitate
- inflection of digitare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Latin
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