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palmations

palmations is the plural of palmation.

Meaning of palmation

Noun

palmation (countable and uncountable, plural palmations)

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being palmate.
    • In these four antlers there is no trace of palmation, and apart from the elongated base there is nothing to distinguish them from the two-, three-, and four-tined stages of the antlers of other deer...1933, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London - Part 1, page 394
  2. (countable) A palmate structure.
    • In the antlers of the moose, on the other hand, we find the following abnormality: the antlers may add extra points that reach down, below the palmations' edges.1977, Wolfgang Schad, Man and Mammals: Toward a Biology of Form, page 168

Questions about palmations

What is palmations the plural of?
Palmations is the plural of palmation.

Words near palmations in the dictionary

  1. palmatiform
  2. palmatilobate
  3. palmatilobed
  4. palmatine
  5. palmation
  6. palmations
  7. palmatiparted
  8. palmatipartite
  9. palmatisect
  10. palmatisected
  11. palmatisectly

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