Palmate vs Cannabis - What's the difference?
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(chiefly, botany) Having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point.
(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 .
(rare) Having webbed appendage; palmated.
(rare) Hand-like; shaped like a hand with extended fingers
(chemistry) A salt or ester of ricinoleic acid (formerly called palmic acid); a ricinoleate.
A tall annual dioecious plant (Cannabis'', especially ''Cannabis sativa ), native to central Asia and having alternate, palmately divided leaves and tough bast fibers.
A mildly euphoriant, intoxicating hallucinogenic drug prepared from various parts of this plant.
The purified and decarboxylated resin of the cannabis plant used for medicinal purposes rather than for any intoxicating effects.
As nouns the difference between palmate and cannabis
is that palmate is a salt or ester of ricinoleic acid (formerly called {{term|palmic acid|lang=en}}); a ricinoleate while cannabis is a tall annual dioecious plant (Cannabis, especially Cannabis sativa), native to central Asia and having alternate, palmately divided leaves and tough bast fibers.As an adjective palmate
is having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point.palmate
English
Adjective
(-)- Although palmate leaves are typical of most Western maples, a number of species have leaves without lobes.
- 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.
- The Palmate Newt is a common Western European amphibian.
