digitated

digitated (comparative more digitated, superlative most digitated)

1. (botany) Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Also, in general, characterized by digitation.
   • 1913, Charles Darwin, A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World‎:

     In Brazil I have often admired the varied beauty of the bananas, palms, and orange-trees contrasted together; and here we also have the bread-fruit, conspicuous from its large, glossy, and deeply digitated leaf.

   • 1904, Robert W. Chambers, In Search of the Unknown‎:

     The other pair of limbs terminate in something that, from the single instance I experienced, seemed to resemble soft but firm antennae or, perhaps, digitated palpi--" "Feelers!"

   • 1897, William Thomas Fernie, Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure‎:

     From the large digitated leaves an extract is made which has proved of service in whooping-cough, and of which from one-third to half a teaspoonful may be given for a dose.

   • 1895, Thomas Gwyn Elger, The Moon‎:

     Its massive central mountain, surmounted by many peaks, occupies a considerable area on the floor, and exhibits a digitated outline at the base.

• digitated in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.