Definitions for digitate

digitate dig·i·tate

Spelling: [dij-i-teyt or dij-i-tey-tid]
IPA: /ˈdɪdʒ ɪˌteɪt or ˈdɪdʒ ɪˌteɪ tɪd/

Digitate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 124 anagrams from letters in digitate (adegiitt).

Definitions for digitate

adjective

  1. Zoology. having digits or digitlike processes.
  2. Botany. having radiating divisions or leaflets resembling the fingers of a hand.
  3. like a digit or finger.

Origin of digitate

From the Latin word digitātus, dating back to 1655-65. See digit, -ate1

Examples for digitate

digitate (fingered), where the leaflets of a compound leaf are all borne on the apex of the petiole, 58.

A year or two since, a man brought from Ohio to the University of Iowa an innocent five-parted, digitate, black fungus.

The inflorescence consists of solitary, binate, digitate, or panicled racemes.

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

It is a tall evergreen with irregular branches; its digitate leaves are dark and glossy.

Its leaves are digitate and long-stalked, with five obovate, serrate, hairy leaflets.

Leaves alternate, compound, digitate, caducous; leaflets 5–7 with long common petiole.

Leaves opposite, digitate; leaflets serrate, straight-veined, like a Chestnut-leaf.

digitate: finger-like, or divided into finger-like processes.

In the adjoining cut the intermediate stages between a palmate or digitate leaf to a pinnate one may be seen.

Word Value for digitate
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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