Definition of "digitate" []

• Having digits or fingerlike projections. (adjective)
• Botany Having distinct parts arising from a common point or center; palmate. (adjective)

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• "Australia; a slender stem, about thirty feet in height, gives off a few branches with immense digitate dark and glossy leaves, and long spike-like racemes of small scarlet flowers, a great resort for insects and insect-feeding birds."
• "LEAVES: Large, digitate or deeply digitately lobed into 5-7 segments."
• "The spikelets are lanceolate, 2 - to 3-nate, in digitate or racemose spikes, jointed on the pedicels but not thickened at the base, 1-flowered."