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adv. - In a manner shaped like a hand with the fingers extended, as a leaf or an antler. .

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  • palmately cleft
  • (Samburu: naisichoi), a stout plant with palmately veined leaves and relatively larger basal lobes.
  • The leaves are petiolate, often cordate, with strongly marked reticulate veining (unusual for a monocotyledon), sometimes lobed, occasionally palmately compound.
  • It is also palmately lobed, which means the leaf has five "arms."
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