digitate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite resembling a finger
    fingerlike.
    • digitate leaves of the horse chestnut

WordNet

Dig"i*tate transitive verb
Etymology
LL. digitatus, p. p. of digitare, fr. L. digitus. See Digit.
Definitions
  1. To point out as with the finger. R. Robinson (Eudoxa).
Dig"i*tate, Dig"i*ta`ted adjective (Also<
  • Digitate
  • Digitated
)
Etymology
L. digitatus having fingers.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Also, in general, characterized by digitation. -- Dig"i*tate*ly adv.

Webster 1913