Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as digitate, 2.

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  • adjective botany Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Also, in general, characterized by digitation.

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Examples

  • I have often admired the varied beauty of the bananas, palms, and orange-trees contrasted together; and here we also have the bread-fruit, conspicuous from its large, glossy, and deeply digitated leaf.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

  • I have often admired the varied beauty of the bananas, palms, and orange-trees contrasted together; and here we also have the bread-fruit, conspicuous from its large, glossy, and deeply digitated leaf.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

  • From the large digitated leaves an extract is made which has proved of service in whooping-cough, and of which from one-third to half a teaspoonful may be given for a dose.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • In Brazil I have often admired the varied beauty of the bananas, palms, and orange-trees contrasted together; and here we also have the bread-fruit, conspicuous from its large, glossy, and deeply digitated leaf.

    Chapter XVIII 1909

  • Something curious to the unaccustomed eye, these curling, clutching, digitated members raised above their usual range and common avocations, suddenly endowed with speech, and holding forth there in the silent upper air for the whole human economy.

    The Convert 1907

  • Something curious to the unaccustomed eye, these curling, clutching, digitated members raised above their usual range and common avocations, suddenly endowed with speech, and holding forth there in the silent upper air for the whole human economy.

    The Convert Elizabeth Robins 1907

  • I saw one or two specimens of the bread-fruit tree, with its digitated foliage, and several kinds of pine-apple plants

    Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

  • He slips off his sandals, enters in his white digitated stockings, and, with another smile and bow, sinks gently into the proffered chair.

    Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • The tabi, the white digitated stocking, gives to a small light foot a mythological aspect -- the white cleft grace of the foot of a fauness.

    Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • In Brazil I have often admired the contrast of varied beauty in the banana, palm, and orange tree; here we have in addition the breadfruit tree, conspicuous from its large, glossy, and deeply digitated leaf.

    The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In John Lubbock 1873

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