Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Resembling or functioning as a foot.
  • adjective Botany Having palmately divided lobes with the lateral lobes cleft or divided.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In zoology: Relating or pertaining to the Pedata.
  • Having divisions like toes; in botany, having the two lateral lobes themselves divided into smaller segments, the midribs of which do not run directly into the common central point, as a palmate leaf, such as the leaf of Helleborus fœtidus.
  • In zoöl:

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Palmate, with the lateral lobes cleft into two or more segments; -- said of a leaf.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective having the characteristics of a foot
  • adjective anatomy having feet
  • adjective botany (of a leaf) having deeply divided lobes

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having or resembling a foot
  • adjective of a leaf shape; having radiating lobes, each deeply cleft or divided

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin pedātus, past participle of pedāre, to furnish with feet, from pēs, ped-, foot; see ped- in Indo-European roots.]

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