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pedate
[ped-eyt]
adjective
having a foot or feet.
resembling a foot.
having divisions like toes.
Botany.(of a leaf ) palmately parted or divided with the lateral lobes or divisions cleft or divided.
pedate
/ ˈɛɪ /
adjective
(of a plant leaf) divided into several lobes arising at a common point, the lobes often being stalked and the lateral lobes sometimes divided into smaller lobes
zoology having or resembling a foot
a pedate appendage
Other 51Թ Forms
- pedately adverb
- ˈ岹ٱ adverb
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of pedate1
Example Sentences
The leaves spring from the top of the root-stock, and are smooth, distinctly pedate, dark-green above, and lighter below, with 7 to 9 segments and long petioles.
Pistils 3–10, sessile, forming coriaceous many-seeded pods.—Perennial herbs, with ample palmate or pedate leaves, and large, solitary, nodding, early vernal flowers.
Pedat′ifid, divided in a pedate manner, but having the divisions connected at the base.—Combination pedal, a metal pedal in organs controlling several stops at once.
The leaves are very large, pedate, dentate, and distinctly veined.
The foliage is smaller than that of most kinds; the leaves are radical, rather short-stalked, pedate, and divisions narrow; they are of a leathery substance and a dark green colour.
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