palmate

Meanings

Adjective

• Having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point.
• Having more than three leaflets arising from a common point, often in the form of a fan.
• Having webbed appendage; palmated.
• Hand-like; shaped like a hand with extended fingers

Noun

• A salt or ester of ricinoleic acid (formerly called palmic acid); a ricinoleate.

Origin

• From Latin palmātus, by extension (as palma acquired the meaning "palm tree"), "palm-leaf shaped".