palmate

Having a shape similar to that of a hand with the fingers extended.

Having three or more veins, leaflets, or lobes radiating from one point; digitate.

Having webbing that connects the three front toes, as the feet of many waterbirds.

Like an open palm; resembling a hand with the fingers extended.

Web-footed, as a bird; palmiped; webbed; specifically, of or pertaining to the Palmatæ. Compare semipalmate, totipalmate.

In botany, originally, having five lobes, with the midribs diverging from a common center; by later botanists extended to leaves that are lobed or divided so that the sinuses point to or reach the apex of the petiole, somewhat irrespective of the number of lobes. See digitate, and cuts under leaf.

A salt of palmic acid; a ricinoleate.

Having the shape of the hand; resembling a hand with the fingers spread.

Spreading from the apex of a petiole, as the divisions of a leaf, or leaflets, so as to resemble the hand with outspread fingers.