digitate

/'didʤitit/

Thân thiện

The horse chestnut tree has large, digitate leaves with five to seven leaflets.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Resembling a finger or fingers: Having parts that spread out from a central point, similar to the arrangement of fingers on a hand.
   • Specifically in botany: Describing a compound leaf where leaflets radiate from a single point at the tip of the petiole, like the fingers from the palm.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • The horse chestnut tree is known for its large, digitate leaves.
  • The fossil showed a digitate impression, suggesting a structure with finger-like projections.

Advanced Usage

• "Digitate process": In anatomy or biology, a finger-like projection or extension.
  • The tumor had a digitate process extending into the surrounding tissue.
• "Digitate colony": In microbiology, a bacterial colony with finger-like outgrowths.
  • The culture plate showed a distinctive digitate colony morphology.

Variants and Related Words

• Digitately (adverb): In a digitate manner.
  • The leaflets are arranged digitately.
• Palmate: A closely related botanical term often used synonymously with "digitate" to describe leaves with leaflets radiating from a common point. "Digitate" can be considered a subset of "palmate" forms.

Synonyms

• Palmate: Especially in botany, having lobes or leaflets radiating from a common point.
• Finger-like: Resembling the shape or arrangement of fingers.

Antonyms

• Pinnate: Describing a compound leaf where leaflets are arranged on either side of a central axis, like a feather.
• Simple: Describing a leaf with a single, undivided blade.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. resembling a finger
   • digitate leaves of the horse chestnut

Từ đồng nghĩa

• fingerlike