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. }} *