palmate

/pal-meyt, -mit, pahl-, pah-meyt/US // ˈpæl meɪt, -mɪt, ˈpɑl-, ˈpɑ meɪt //UK // (ˈpælmeɪt, -mɪt) //

掌状的,掌状,掌形,掌状物

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

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- : shaped like an open palm or like a hand with the fingers extended, as a leaf or an antler.
- : Botany. having four or more lobes or leaflets radiating from a single point.
- : Zoology. web-footed.
- : Furniture. decorated with palmettes. having bands of semicircles enclosing a radiating leaf form.

The lower leaves of this plant are spinous and very glaucous, and the upper ones palmate.
The leaves are generally palmate and hairy; and the blossoms are large, and of a beautiful yellow.
The broad palmate antlers with numerous sharp points sometimes measure 8½ feet or more from tip to tip.
This time Kazan was caught fairly on the broad palmate leaf of the bull's antler, and he was flung back again, half stunned.
The plant is from six to twelve inches high, with palmate tubers, and mostly radical leaves.