palmate in English

adjective
1
(of a leaf) having several lobes (typically 5–7) whose midribs all radiate from one point.
Large palmate leaves are the main attraction of this 5 foot tall plant.
2
(of an antler) in which the angles between the tines are partly filled in to form a broad flat surface, as in fallow deer and moose.
Megaloceros had large palmate antlers with a span up to 3.7 m and a weight around 45 kg.

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1. Are the compound leaves palmate, pinnate, or Bipinnate? Palmate

2. Only the presence of palmate rather than Anthoid teeth" (Wolfe 1989, p

3. compound, palmate, with five folioles, toothed, oval, acuminate, dull green turning bright red in fall

4. Very similar to watermelon, the leaves are palmate and angular with three to seven divided lobes.

5. 12 A large extinct European deer of the genus Megaceros of the Pliocene Epoch and the Pleistocene Epoch, having very large palmate antlers.

6. Although Abutilon is no relation to the maple tree, it is frequently referred to as the "flowering maple". Abutilon does have maple-like palmate leaves

7. Genus Akebia are vigorous twining, semi-evergreen climbing shrubs, with attractive palmate or trifoliate leaves and racemes of cup-shaped purplish female and smaller male flowers, followed by large, sausage-shaped fruits, if cross-pollinated by another clone

8. Whether the leaf is simple (Lycopus, Glechoma) or compound (Fraxinus), pinnate (Lycopus, Fraxinus) or palmate (Glechoma) in its nervation or leaflet arrangement, and acropetal (Fraxinus) or basipetal (Lycopus, Glechoma) in its development, the organogenetic zone of its primordium is characterised by a continuum of meristematic activity, a submarginal optimum mitotic density, a mitotic polarity (the main cause of lobation) and a very important individual variability.

9. The moose (in North America) or elk (in Eurasia) (Alces Alces), is a member of the New World deer subfamily and is the largest and heaviest extant species in the deer family.Most adult male moose have distinctive broad, palmate ("open-hand shaped") antlers; most other members of the deer family have antlers with a dendritic ("twig-like") configuration.