palmate

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any salt or ester of ricinoleic acid (formerly called palmic acid); a ricinoleate.
形容词 adj.
  1. Having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point. not-comparable
    — Although palmate leaves are typical of most Western maples, a number of species have leaves without lobes.
  2. Having more than three leaflets arising from a common point, often in the form of a fan. not-comparable
    — 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.
  3. Having webbed appendage; palmated. not-comparable,rare
    — The Palmate Newt is a common Western European amphibian.
  4. Hand-like; shaped like a hand with extended fingers not-comparable,rare

词形变化

palmates plural

词汇关系

衍生词
bipalmate costapalmate nonpalmate palmately palmate newt palmation semipalmate subpalmate totipalmate
相关词
pinnate

词源

词源 1
Learned borrowing from Latin palmātus (“hand-shaped, palm-leaf shaped”), from palma (“palm, palm-tree”). Equivalent to palm + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Compare French palmé.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English palmic acid
English -ate
English palmate
From palmic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
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