verb
definition
To point out as with the finger.
definition
To spread out from a common point in a finger-like manner.
adjective
definition
Having digits, fingers or things shaped like fingers; fingerlike
definition
Having parts that spread out from a common point in a finger-like manner.
Examples of digitate in a Sentence
Tracing the widening female duct onwards we now come to the openings of the digitate accessory glands d, d, which probably assist in the formation of the egg-capsule.
The Mississippi has already been mentioned as rapidly building forward its digitate delta; the Rio Granide, next in size, has built its delta about 50 m.
Alcyonium digitatum, a pink digitate form popularly known as" dead.men's fingers,"is common in 10 -20 fathoms of water off the English coasts.
The corallum of Heliopora is of a blue colour, and has the form of broad, upright, lobed, or digitate masses flattened from side to side.
The Chepo (or Bayano) also is a digitate system with a drainage area reaching from the Caribbean to the Pacific; it is navigable for about 120 m.