Definition of "pedate" []

• Resembling or functioning as a foot: pedate appendages. (adjective)
• Zoology Having feet: pedate larvae. (adjective)
• Botany Having palmately divided lobes with the lateral lobes cleft or divided: a pedate leaf. (adjective)

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• "The leaves are very large, pedate, dentate, and distinctly veined."
• "Hellebores, pedate, smooth, of stout substance and dark green colour; the divisions of the leaves are narrow and numerous."
• "They are curiously formed and twisted, pedate or bird-foot shaped, the outer segments twice cut, lance-shaped, and turned inwards or over the main part of the leaf; the leaves are of a deep green colour, and of good substance; they seldom exceed four in number to each plant or tuber."