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palmate

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palmate /pal·mate/ (pahl´māt) having a shape resembling that of a hand with the fingers spread.
pal·mate (plmt, päl-, pämt) or pal·mat·ed (-mtd)
adj.
Having a shape similar to that of a hand with the fingers extended.


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And alongside these are every kind of UK amphibian - frogs and the three types of newt, smooth, great-crested and palmate.
The leaves are deciduous [shed foliage at end of growing season], grow 3-6 inches long and equally wide with five palmate lobes, having leaflets or lobes radiating from a common point.
Leaves are palmate and star-shaped and, if you grew up back East, will remind you of those seen on the unrelated American chestnut.
 
 
 
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