digitated

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   divided into fingerlike lobes or leaflets that spread from one point, especially in botany

   The breadfruit tree has broad, deeply digitated leaves.

2. 2
   adj

   having fingers, toes, or similar projecting divisions

   The animal's digitated forelimbs ended in five narrow tips.

From Latin digitus, 'finger or toe,' + -ate and -ed. Naturalists applied the hand image to leaves, fins, and other structures whose divisions spread like fingers.

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