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Palmate vs Bipalmate - What's the difference?

palmate | bipalmate |

In botany|lang=en terms the difference between palmate and bipalmate

is that palmate is (botany) (leaves) having more than three leaflets arising from a common point, often in the form of a fan while bipalmate is (botany) describing leaves that have a palmate structure on petioles that are themselves palmate.

As adjectives the difference between palmate and bipalmate

is that palmate is (chiefly|botany) having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point while bipalmate is (botany) describing leaves that have a palmate structure on petioles that are themselves palmate.

As a noun palmate

is (chemistry) a salt or ester of ricinoleic acid (formerly called palmic acid); a ricinoleate.

palmate

English

Adjective

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  • (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.
  • (botany) (leaves) Having more than three leaflets arising from a common point, often in the form of a fan.
  • * 1909 , Eleanor Stockhouse Atkinson, "", The How and Why Library .
    • 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.
  • (rare) Having webbed appendage; palmated.
    • The Palmate Newt is a common Western European amphibian.
  • (rare) Hand-like; shaped like a hand with extended fingers

    • Usage notes

    * The word is rare outside of technical writing, and hardly ever qualify things other than leaves. * A compound leaf with more than three leaflets (trifoliate) radiating from the same point is more usually called palmate or palmately compound to avoid ambiguity. * While "palmated" is a more usual term when referring to webbed appendages. "Palmate" is often found in zoological nomenclature as the Latin term for both meanings is palmatus .

    See also

    * pinnate

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chemistry) A salt or ester of ricinoleic acid (formerly called palmic acid); a ricinoleate.

    • Usage notes

    * Used primarily as part of the ----

    bipalmate

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (botany) Describing leaves that have a palmate structure on petioles that are themselves palmate