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Digitate vs Digitated - What's the difference?

digitate | digitated |

In botany|lang=en terms the difference between digitate and digitated

is that digitate is (botany) having parts that spread out from a common point; palmate while digitated is (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.

As adjectives the difference between digitate and digitated

is that digitate is having digits, fingers or things shaped like fingers; fingerlike while digitated is (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.

As a verb digitate

is to point out as with the finger.

digitate

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Having digits, fingers or things shaped like fingers; fingerlike
  • (botany) Having parts that spread out from a common point; palmate

    • Verb

    (digitat)
  • To point out as with the finger.
    • ----

    digitated

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (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.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=Charles Darwin, title=A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=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. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1904, author=Robert W. Chambers, title=In Search of the Unknown, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=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!" }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1897, author=William Thomas Fernie, title=Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=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. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1895, author=Thomas Gwyn Elger, title=The Moon, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Its massive central mountain, surmounted by many peaks, occupies a considerable area on the floor, and exhibits a digitated outline at the base. }} *