English Dictionary

palmate

adj

(chiefly botany) Having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point. / (botany) (leaves) Having more than three leaflets arising from a common point, often in the form of a fan.

The leaves of the plant are palmate, with five lobes.

意味（1）

(chiefly botany) 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.

意味（2）

(botany) (leaves) 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.

意味（3）

(rare) Having webbed appendage; palmated.

The Palmate Newt is a common Western European amphibian.

意味（4）

(rare) Hand-like; shaped like a hand with extended fingers