Digitate Definition

dĭjĭ-tāt
adjective
Having separate fingers or toes.
Webster's New World
Like a digit; fingerlike.
Webster's New World
Having distinct parts arising from a common point or center; palmate.
American Heritage Medicine
Having fingerlike divisions, as some compound leaves.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
verb
To point out as with the finger.
Wiktionary

Origin of Digitate

  • From Latin digitātus

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Digitate Sentence Examples

  • Tracing the widening female duct onwards we now come to the openings of the digitate accessory glands d, d, which probably assist in the formation of the egg-capsule.

  • The Mississippi has already been mentioned as rapidly building forward its digitate delta; the Rio Granide, next in size, has built its delta about 50 m.

  • Alcyonium digitatum, a pink digitate form popularly known as" dead.men's fingers,"is common in 10 -20 fathoms of water off the English coasts.

  • The corallum of Heliopora is of a blue colour, and has the form of broad, upright, lobed, or digitate masses flattened from side to side.

  • The Chepo (or Bayano) also is a digitate system with a drainage area reaching from the Caribbean to the Pacific; it is navigable for about 120 m.

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Words Starting With

DDIDIG

Words Ending With

ETEATE

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digitate

Words Starting With D and Ending With E

Starts With D & Ends With EStarts With DI & Ends With EStarts With D & Ends With TE

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8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With D8 Letter Words Ending With E