Palmate vs Palpate - What's the difference?
palmate | palpate |
(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.
To examine, or otherwise explore, (usually an area or organ of the human body) by feeling it.
Of palp, or having palp.
As adjectives the difference between palmate and palpate
is that palmate is (chiefly|botany) having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point while palpate is of palp, or having palp.As a noun palmate
is (chemistry) a salt or ester of ricinoleic acid (formerly called palmic acid); a ricinoleate.As a verb palpate is
to examine, or otherwise explore, (usually an area or organ of the human body) by feeling it.palmate
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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.
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
* pinnateNoun
(en noun)Usage notes
* Used primarily as part of the ----palpate
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Verb
(palpat)- I palpated his expired heart.