noun
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A salt or ester of ricinoleic acid (formerly called palmic acid); a ricinoleate.
adjective
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Having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point.
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Although palmate leaves are typical of most Western maples, a number of species have leaves without lobes.
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(leaves) Having more than three leaflets arising from a common point, often in the form of a fan.
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Having webbed appendage; palmated.
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The Palmate Newt is a common Western European amphibian.
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Hand-like; shaped like a hand with extended fingers
Examples of palmate in a Sentence
Palmate palm trees are noted for having fan-like leaves.
Adiantum; the lowest vein in each half of the lamina follows a course parallel to the edge, and gives off numerous branches, which fork repeatedly as they spread in a palmate manner towards the leaf margin.
Smooth and palmate newts rarely live beyond around five years.
The leaf in this case is multicostate and the venation palmate.
The recently discovered species, Sphenophyllum fertile, while resembling Bowmanites Romeri in its peltate, bisporangiate sporangiophores, is peculiar in the fact that both dorsal and ventral lobes of the sporophyll were fertile, dividing in a palmate manner into several branches, each of which constitutes a sporangiophore.
The palmate seed leaves or cotyledons look like a pair of supplicating hands and so are distinctive but easily overlooked.