How to pronounce“palmate”in English
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palmated clovers and least sandpipers in their brownish gray winter
plumage camp out amid high-rise condos and hotels surveying the beach and postures of sleepy disgruntlement with their heads
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Definitions of “palmate”
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.”
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.”
Any salt or ester of ricinoleic acid (formerly called palmic acid); a ricinoleate.