palmate - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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• 1 English
  • 1.1 Etymology 1
    * 1.1.1 Pronunciation
    * 1.1.1.1 Adjective
    * 1.1.1.1.1 Translations
    * 1.1.1.2 Usage notes
    * 1.1.1.3 Derived terms
    * 1.1.1.4 See also
  • 1.2 Etymology 2
    * 1.2.1 Noun
    * 1.2.1.1 Usage notes
    * 1.2.1.2 Derived terms
  • 1.3 Anagrams
• 2 Italian
  • 2.1 Adjective
• 3 Latin
  • 3.1 Verb
• 4 Spanish
  • 4.1 Verb

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Learned borrowing from Latin palmātus (“hand-shaped, palm-leaf shaped”), from palma (“palm, palm-tree”). Equivalent to palm +‎ -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Compare French palmé.

• IPA(key): /ˈpɑmeit/, /ˈpɑlmeit/

palmate (not comparable)

Four palmate (2) palm leaves.

1. (chiefly botany) Having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point.
   Although palmate leaves are typical of most Western maples, a number of species have leaves without lobes.
2. (botany, of leaves) Having more than three leaflets arising from a common point, often in the form of a fan.
   • 1909, Eleanor Stockhouse Atkinson, “In the Tree Tops”, in The How and Why Library:
     The horse chestnut, buckeye and hickory trees have palmate leaves. That is, the broad oval leaflets are all set around the tip of a common leaf stem, spreading in a circle, like the ribs of a palm leaf fan.
3. (rare) Having webbed appendage; palmated.
   The Palmate Newt is a common Western European amphibian.
4. (rare) Hand-like; shaped like a hand with extended fingers

botany: having more than three leaflets arising from a common point

• The word is rare outside of technical writing, and hardly ever qualifies things other than leaves.

• A compound leaf with more than three leaflets (trifoliate) radiating from the same point is more usually called palmate or palmately compound to avoid ambiguity.

• While "palmated" is a more usual term when referring to webbed appendages, "palmate" is often found in zoological nomenclature as the Latin term for both meanings is palmatus.

• palmate newt

• totipalmate

• pinnate

From palmic acid +‎ -ate (“salt or ester”).

palmate (plural palmates)

1. (chemistry) Any salt or ester of ricinoleic acid (formerly called palmic acid); a ricinoleate.

• Used primarily as part of the International Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients
• sodium palmate
• lampate, pelmata

palmate

1. feminine plural of palmato

palmāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of palmō

palmate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of palmar combined with te

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