digitate

Adjective

digitate (not comparable)

1. Having digits, fingers or things shaped like fingers; fingerlike
2. Having parts that spread out from a common point in a finger-like manner.

Verb

IPA/ˈdɪdʒɪteɪt/

digitate (third-person singular simple present digitates, present participle digitating, simple past and past participle digitated)

1. (obsolete) To point out as with one's finger, indicate.
   • The supine resting on Water onely by retention of Air[…]doth digitate a reason.1658, John Robinson, Eudoxa
2. To spread out from a common point in a finger-like manner.
   • But what is most worthy of notice is, that the greater number of muscular fibres arising from the coracoid and radio-ulnar bones form a pectoral muscle, superficial to the other fibres of the great lateral, and digitating with them along the side of the fish opposite the extremities of the fifth...1857 December 23, John Cleland, “On the Skeleton, Muscles, and Viscera of Malapterurus Beninensis”, in Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, volume 1, Edinburgh, published 1858...