Definitions for palmate

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palmate pal·mate

Spelling: [pal-meyt, -mit, pahl-, pah-meyt]

IPA: /ˈpæl meɪt, -mɪt, ˈpɑl-, ˈpɑ meɪt/

Palmate is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 178 anagrams from letters in palmate (aaelmpt).

Definitions for palmate

adjective

1. shaped like an open palm or like a hand with the fingers extended, as a leaf or an antler.
2. Botany. having four or more lobes or leaflets radiating from a single point.
3. Zoology. web-footed.
4. Furniture. decorated with palmettes. (in furniture of the 17th century) having bands of semicircles enclosing a radiating leaf form.

Origin of palmate

First recorded in 1750-60, palmate is from the Latin word palmātus shaped like a palm. See palm¹, -ate¹

Examples for palmate

palmate: like the palm of the hand, with finger-like processes.

The branches are more or less flattened, and often are palmate at the ends.

All the toes are connected by a palmate web, and the innermost has, besides, a marginal longitudinal membrane.

The leaves are palmate, and they are divided into three or five stalked leaflets.

Climbing, with lobed, palmate pinn and terminal fruit-clusters.

It was a large tree, with palmate leaves having seven fingers.

It connects that genus with the real Orchides with palmate bulbs.

The leaves are simple and cut into five lobes, with a palmate venation and irregularly toothed margins.

The summit is palmate, having from two to five branches from its back part, which are curved inward (c).

palmate (or digitate) leaf of five leaflets, of the Sweet Buckeye.