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Definition of Palmatifid
1. Adjective. Of a leaf shape; palmately cleft rather than lobed.
Definition of Palmatifid
1. a. Palmate, with the divisions separated but little more than halfway to the common center.
Definition of Palmatifid
1. Adjective. (botany of leaves) Having lobes with incisions that extend less than half-way toward the petiole. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Palmatifid
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Palmatifid
Literary usage of Palmatifid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1898)
"Herbs with opposite or alternate, entire pinnatifid palmatifid or dissected leaves.
... Leaves pinnately divided, pinnatifid or palmatifid. ..."
2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1842)
"Involucre generally as longas, or about jrd longer than the nut; segments palmatifid
as far as the middle or beyond ; straps ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"... coriaceous, pal- mately or pinnately veined, entire or pinnatifid or palmatifid,
often very large: inflorescence a simple or much-branched spadix, ..."
4. Flora of Tropical Africa by Daniel Oliver, David Prain, William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (1868)
"Leaves membranous, palmatifid or sub-7-fid with broadly oblong or ovate, obtuse
or scarcely acute, remotely serrate or eremite-serrate segments, ..."
5. Class Book of Botany: Being an Introduction to the Study of the Vegetable by John Hutton Balfour (1852)
"... leaf having a broad portion like the palm of the hand, and either five or more
lobes. When the parts of a palmatifid leaf are narrow, like the fingers, ..."
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