interdigitate
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]interdigitate (third-person singular simple present interdigitates, present participle interdigitating, simple past and past participle interdigitated)
- (transitive) To fold or lock together, as when the fingers of one hand are laced between those of the other.
- (intransitive) To become folded or locked together, like the fingers of a folded hand.
- (transitive, figuratively) To intermingle; to present alternately items from one group and then another.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii:
- Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to become folded or locked together, like the fingers of a folded hand
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[edit]Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]interdigitate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of interdigitar combined with te