digitated

Having digits; characterized by digitation.

Adjective

  1. Having digits; characterized by digitation.
  2. Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole.
    • In Brazil I have often admired the varied beauty of the bananas, palms, and orange-trees contrasted together; and here we also have the bread-fruit, conspicuous from its large, glossy, and deeply digitated leaf. - 1913,...
    • The other pair of limbs terminate in something that, from the single instance I experienced, seemed to resemble soft but firm antennae or, perhaps, digitated palpi--" "Feelers!" - 1904, Robert W. Chambers, In Search of...
    • From the large digitated leaves an extract is made which has proved of service in whooping-cough, and of which from one-third to half a teaspoonful may be given for a dose. - 1897, William Thomas Fernie, Herbal Simples...

Forms

more digitated most digitated

Derived

undigitated