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palmate

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palmate, palmated
1. shaped like an open hand
2. Botany having more than three lobes or segments that spread out from a common point
3. (of the feet of most water birds) having three toes connected by a web

palmate [′pä‚māt]
(botany)
Having lobes, such as on leaves, that radiate from a common point.
(vertebrate zoology)
Having webbed toes.
(zoology)
Having the distal portion broad and lobed, resembling a hand with the fingers spread.

palmate
1. A column capital resembling the leaves of a palm tree.
2. A Palmette.


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And alongside these are every kind of UK amphibian - frogs and the three types of newt, smooth, great-crested and palmate.
The leaves are deciduous [shed foliage at end of growing season], grow 3-6 inches long and equally wide with five palmate lobes, having leaflets or lobes radiating from a common point.
Leaves are palmate and star-shaped and, if you grew up back East, will remind you of those seen on the unrelated American chestnut.
 
 
 
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