digitate leaves of the horse chestnut. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
LEAVES: Large, digitate or deeply digitately lobed into 5-7 segments. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
The inflorescence consists of solitary, binate, digitate, or panicled racemes. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Inflorescence is a panicle consisting of digitate or whorled, slender or stout spike-like racemes. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
In the adjoining cut the intermediate stages between a palmate or digitate leaf to a pinnate one may be seen. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
The inflorescence consists of spikes, or spiciform racemes, solitary or digitate, and in some it is paniculate. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Inflorescence digitate; glumes three with a minute glume; nerves of second glume five to seven, straight and prominent 2. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Spikelets many, dissimilar, in solitary, digitate or fascicled racemes or spikes; first glume not sunk in the hollow of the rachis. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
What similarities in the organisation of man and the digitate mammals, and yet what differences between their attitudes when standing!. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
The spikelets are lanceolate, 2 - to 3-nate, in digitate or racemose spikes, jointed on the pedicels but not thickened at the base, 1-flowered. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The stamens are here analogues not of a simple entire leaf, but of a lobed, digitate, or compound leaf, each subdivision bearing its separate anther. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
The inflorescence consists of spikes, solitary, digitate or fascicled, articulate and fragile; the joints of the floral axis and the pedicels of the pedicelled spikelets are trigonous and hollowed ventrally. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The spikelets are sessile, 3 to 12 flowered, 2 to 3-seriate, secund, laterally compressed and forming digitate whorled or capitate spikes, not joined at the base; rachilla continuous between the flowering glumes. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Australia; a slender stem, about thirty feet in height, gives off a few branches with immense digitate dark and glossy leaves, and long spike-like racemes of small scarlet flowers, a great resort for insects and insect-feeding birds. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference
The only further illustrations that it is requisite to give of such changes in this place are those occurring in lobed or compounded leaves, which, from a lengthening of the midrib or central stalk, convert a digitate or palmate leaf into a pinnate one. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Leaves alternate, compound, digitate, caducous; leaflets 5-7 with long common petiole. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
Spikelets in unilateral spikes from 1 to many flowered, digitate or paniculate; rachis not articulated. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference
Having a fimple petiole connecting two leaflets at the top of it: a fpe - cies of digitate leaf, which fee. From Wordnik.com. [The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ...] Reference
This plant was a tall single-stemmed annual, with a few digitate and toothed leaves, and a loose panicle of greenish flowers at its top. From Wordnik.com. [The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains] Reference
Their bases are united into a single, rather narrow pedicel, and they thus appear like a great digitate expansion at one end of the bladder. From Wordnik.com. [Insectivorous Plants] Reference
The filiform and digitate varieties may be snipped off with the scissors, and the base touched with nitrate of silver; or a ligature may be used. From Wordnik.com. [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference
It is herbaceous, scarcely a foot and a half in height, and toward the upper part of the stem arise three quinate-digitate leaves, from the center of which springs the flower stalk. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
Of course I couldn't, for example, discourse with authority upon the heteropterous mictidæ or tell you in what genus or genera the prothorax and femora are digitate; or whether climatic and polymorphic forms of certain diurnal lepidoptera occur within certain boreal limits. From Wordnik.com. [Iole] Reference
The digitate leaf, to correfpond with the name, Ihould have fivs leaflets fpreading out like the open fingers: but Linneus makes binate y ternate and quinate leaves to be fpecies of the digitate; and the leaves of Horfe-chefnut, though they have more leaflets than five, are neverthelefs called digitate. From Wordnik.com. [The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ...] Reference
Spikes free at the base, digitate. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Spikes digitate, spreading, from 4 to 6. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference
Spikes 1 to 5 inches long, digitate, erect. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Spikes or spiciform racemes digitate or whorled. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
(2) In Amphibians for the first time the non-digitate paired fins of fishes were replaced by limbs with fingers and toes. From Wordnik.com. [The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told] Reference
Compared with orbiter, orbit v., orbitoid, orbito-, and their various forms, digitate a and v (just about), digiti-, digitin (not really), digitize, and their various forms. From Wordnik.com. [hospital ~ orbital ~ digital | Linguism | Language Blog] Reference
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