fingerlike

Thân thiện

The horse chestnut tree has fingerlike leaves.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Resembling a finger in shape or appearance: Describes something that has a long, narrow, and often rounded form, similar to a human finger.
   • Having parts or projections that extend like fingers: Used to describe structures, especially in botany or anatomy, that are divided into slender, finger-like sections.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The coral had delicate, fingerlike branches.
  • The peninsula extended into the sea in a fingerlike projection.
  • The plant has fingerlike leaves that are very distinctive.

Advanced Usage

• Scientific/Technical Context: Commonly used in biology, geology, and anatomy to describe shapes.
  • The geologist pointed out the fingerlike lava flows from the ancient volcano.
  • An MRI showed a fingerlike extension of the tumor.

Variants and Related Words

• Digitate (adj): A more technical synonym, often used in botany to describe leaves or other parts that spread out from a central point like fingers from a hand.
  • The horse chestnut has digitate leaves.
• Digitiform (adj): A less common synonym with the same meaning (finger-shaped).

Synonyms

• Digitate
• Digitiform
• Finger-shaped

Antonyms

• Blunt
• Rounded (when implying a lack of distinct, narrow projections)
• Unbranched

Related Phrases/Idioms

(Note: "Fingerlike" itself is not typically used in idioms. The related noun "finger" is used in many idioms, but those are not direct explanations of the adjective "fingerlike".)

Học thuật

Adjective

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

Từ đồng nghĩa

• digitate