Definition of "palmate" []

• Having a shape similar to that of a hand with the fingers extended: palmate antlers; palmate coral. (adjective)
• Botany Having three or more veins, leaflets, or lobes radiating from one point; digitate: a palmate leaf. (adjective)
• Zoology Having webbed toes, as the feet of many water birds. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The leaves of Money Tree are palmate, that is, resembling an outstretched hand."
• "More of the giant palmate leaves are on the ground than on the plant."
• "A palmate newt – its impervious gaze scanned minute horizons between the worlds of water and air."