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palmate

/ˈpɑmeit/

palmate adjective: having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point.

palmate: having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point
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Adjective

palmate (not comparable)

  1. Having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point.
    • Although palmate leaves are typical of most Western maples, a number of species have leaves without lobes.
  2. Having more than three leaflets arising from a common point, often in the form of a fan.
    • The horse chestnut, buckeye and hickory trees have palmate leaves. That is, the broad oval leaflets are all set around the tip of a common leaf stem, spreading in a circle, like the ribs of a palm leaf fan.1909, Eleanor Stockhouse Atkinson, “In the Tree Tops”, in The How and Why Library
  3. (rare) Having webbed appendage; palmated.
    • The Palmate Newt is a common Western European amphibian.
  4. (rare) Hand-like; shaped like a hand with extended fingers

Noun

palmate (plural palmates)

  1. Any salt or ester of ricinoleic acid (formerly called palmic acid); a ricinoleate.

palmate meaning in Tamil

palmate in Tamil

அங்கையுருவான, கைபோன்ற, கை போல் பரந்த

Forms of palmate

pluralpalmates

Origin of palmate

Learned borrowing from Latin palmātus (“hand-shaped, palm-leaf shaped”), from palma (“palm, palm-tree”). Equivalent to palm + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Compare French palmé.

From palmic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).

Words formed from palmate

Phrases with palmate

Questions about palmate

What does palmate mean?
Palmate means having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point.
What is palmate in Tamil?
Palmate in Tamil is அங்கையுருவான, கைபோன்ற, கை போல் பரந்த. See Palmate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is palmate?
Palmate can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce palmate?
Palmate is pronounced /ˈpɑmeit/.

Words near palmate in the dictionary

  1. palmarosa
  2. palmarumycin
  3. palmarumycins
  4. palmary
  5. palmas
  6. palmate
  7. palmate compound
  8. palmate newt
  9. palmate newts
  10. palmated
  11. palmated newt

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Adapted from Wiktionary: palmate (page history and authors); palmate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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