Definition of Palmated

1. Adjective. (ornithology zoology) Having digits connected by a thin membrane; webbed. ¹

2. Adjective. (zoology) Having a broad, flattened parts with short extensions similar to a webbed appendage. ¹

3. Adjective. (rare) palmate ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Palmated

1. palmate [adj] - See also: palmate

Medical Definition of Palmated

1. 1. Having the shape of the hand; resembling a hand with the fingers spread. 2. Spreading from the apex of a petiole, as the divisions of a leaf, or leaflets, so as to resemble the hand with outspread fingers. 3. Having the anterior toes united by a web, as in most swimming birds; webbed. Having the distal portion broad, flat, and more or less divided into lobes; said of certain corals, antlers, etc. Origin: L. Palmatus marked with the palm of a hand, from palma the palm of the hand. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Palmated

palmar radiocarpal ligament
palmar reflex
palmar surface
palmar surface of fingers
palmar ulnocarpal ligament
palmaris
palmaris brevis
palmaris longus
palmarium
palmarosa
palmary
palmate
palmate compound
palmate folds
palmate leaf
palmated (current term)
palmately
palmately compound
palmates
palmatifid
palmatilobed
palmatine
palmation
palmations
palmatipartite
palmatisect
palmatisected
palmature
palmchat
palmchats

Literary usage of Palmated

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Theory and Analysis of Ornament Applied to the Work of Elementary and by François Louis Schauermann (1892)
"palmated dispositions have a point or head- centre and a headline which co-exist. ... It is necessary to distinguish palmated dispositions from angular ..."

2. Variabilität und Vererbung am Zentralnervensystem des Menschen und einiger by Hans Driesch, Hal George Evarts, Johann Paul Karplus (1921)
"THE palmated PIONEER AWTON the trophy-hunter, and Kennedy the guide, were the first two men to ponder over the strange case of the palmated pioneer. ..."

3. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1830)
"The cranium has large foramina behind the eyes, and the hind feet are indented and palmated like those ..."

4. Records of Big Game: With Their Distribution, Characteristics, Dimensions by Rowland Ward (1899)
"... size and the short, much-palmated antlers; (4) the Newfoundland reindeer (R. tarandus terra-novce), Side view of Antlers of Male Barren-Ground Reindeer. ..."

5. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"... from which it also differs in its broad palmated antlers, its longer tail, and its smoother Fallow Deer (Ccn'us Dama). and finer hair. ..."

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