digitate

150 pxDigitate leaf form

Meanings

Adjective

  • Having digits, fingers or things shaped like fingers; fingerlike
  • Having parts that spread out from a common point in a finger-like manner.

Verb

  • To point out as with the finger.
  • To spread out from a common point in a finger-like manner.

Origin

  • From Latin digitātus for the adjective and digito for the verb.

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