digitated

English

Adjective

digitated (comparative more digitated, superlative most digitated)

1. Having digits; characterized by digitation.
2. (botany) Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole.
   • 1913, Charles Darwin, A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World‎^[1]:

     In Brazil I have often admired the varied beauty of the bananas, palms, and orange-trees contrasted together; and here we also have the bread-fruit, conspicuous from its large, glossy, and deeply digitated leaf.

   • 1904, Robert W. Chambers, In Search of the Unknown‎^[2]:

     The other pair of limbs terminate in something that, from the single instance I experienced, seemed to resemble soft but firm antennae or, perhaps, digitated palpi--" "Feelers!"

   • 1897, William Thomas Fernie, Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure‎^[3]:

     From the large digitated leaves an extract is made which has proved of service in whooping-cough, and of which from one-third to half a teaspoonful may be given for a dose.

   • 1895, Thomas Gwyn Elger, The Moon‎^[4]:

     Its massive central mountain, surmounted by many peaks, occupies a considerable area on the floor, and exhibits a digitated outline at the base.

Derived terms

• undigitated

 

References

• “digitated”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.