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digitated

digitated adjective: having digits; characterized by digitation.

Adjective

digitated (comparative more digitated, superlative most digitated)

  1. Having digits; characterized by digitation.
  2. Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole.
    • In Brazil I have often admired the varied beauty of the bananas, palms, and orange-trees contrasted together; and here we also have the bread-fruit, conspicuous from its large, glossy, and deeply digitated leaf.1913, Charles Darwin, A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World
    • The other pair of limbs terminate in something that, from the single instance I experienced, seemed to resemble soft but firm antennae or, perhaps, digitated palpi--" "Feelers!"1904, Robert W. Chambers, In Search of the Unknown

Examples of digitated in a sentence

  • From the large digitated leaves an extract is made which has proved of service in whooping-cough, and of which from one-third to half a teaspoonful may be given for a dose.1897, William Thomas Fernie, Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure:
  • Its massive central mountain, surmounted by many peaks, occupies a considerable area on the floor, and exhibits a digitated outline at the base.1895, Thomas Gwyn Elger, The Moon:

Forms of digitated

comparativemore digitated
superlativemost digitated

Words formed from digitated

Questions about digitated

What does digitated mean?
Digitated means having digits; characterized by digitation.
How do you use digitated in a sentence?
From the large digitated leaves an extract is made which has proved of service in whooping-cough, and of which from one-third to half a teaspoonful may be given for a dose.
What part of speech is digitated?
Digitated is an adjective.

Words near digitated in the dictionary

  1. digitaloid
  2. digitalonin
  3. digitalopyranoside
  4. digitals
  5. digitate
  6. digitated
  7. digitately
  8. digitates
  9. digitating
  10. digitation
  11. digitations

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