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adj
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.
Having more than three leaflets arising from a common point, often in the form of a fan.
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.
Having webbed appendage; palmated.
The Palmate Newt is a common Western European amphibian.
Hand-like; shaped like a hand with extended fingers
noun
Any salt or ester of ricinoleic acid (formerly called palmic acid); a ricinoleate.