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Pedate vs Palmate - What's the difference?

pedate | palmate |

As adjectives the difference between pedate and palmate

is that pedate is having the characteristics of a foot while palmate is having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point.

As a noun palmate is

a salt or ester of ricinoleic acid (formerly called {{term|palmic acid|lang=en}}); a ricinoleate.

pedate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having the characteristics of a foot.
  • Having feet.
  • Having deeply divided lobes.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    palmate

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (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 ----