Palmate
(Pal"mate Pal"ma*ted) a. [L. palmatus marked with the palm of a hand, from palma the palm
of the hand.]
1. Having the shape of the hand; resembling a hand with the fingers spread.
2. (Bot.) Spreading from the apex of a petiole, as the divisions of a leaf, or leaflets, so as to resemble
the hand with outspread fingers. Gray.
3. (Zoöl.) (a) Having the anterior toes united by a web, as in most swimming birds; webbed. See Illust.
(i) under Aves. (b) Having the distal portion broad, flat, and more or less divided into lobes; — said of
certain corals, antlers, etc.
Palmately
(Pal"mate*ly) adv. In a palmate manner.
Palmatifid
(Pal*mat"i*fid) a. [L. palmatus palmate + root of findere to split.] (Bot.) Palmate, with the
divisions separated but little more than halfway to the common center.
Palmatilobed
(Pal*mat"i*lobed) a. [L. palmatus palmate + E. lobed.] (Bot.) Palmate, with the divisions
separated less than halfway to the common center.
Palmatisect
(Pal*mat"i*sect Pal*mat`i*sect"ed) a. [L. palmatus palmate + secare to cut.] (Bot.) Divided,
as a palmate leaf, down to the midrib, so that the parenchyma is interrupted.
Palmcrist
(Palm"crist) n. The palma Christi. (Jonah iv. 6, margin, and Douay version, note.)
Palmed
(Palmed) a. Having or bearing a palm or palms.
Palmed deer (Zoöl.), a stag of full growth, bearing palms. See lst Palm, 4.
Palmer
(Palm"er) n. [From Palm, v. t.] One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice.
Palmer
(Palm"er), n.[From Palm the tree.] A wandering religious votary; especially, one who bore a
branch of palm as a token that he had visited the Holy Land and its sacred places. Chaucer.
Pilgrims and palmers plighted them together.
P. Plowman.
The pilgrim had some home or dwelling place, the palmer had none. The pilgrim traveled to some certain,
designed place or places, but the palmer to all.
T. Staveley. Palmer
(Palm"er) n.
1. (Zoöl.) A palmerworm.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. (Angling) Short for Palmer fly, an artificial fly made to imitate a hairy caterpillar; a hackle.
[Webster
1913 Suppl.]
