·adj Having the shape of the hand; resembling a hand with the fingers spread.
II. Palmated ·adj Having the anterior toes united by a web, as in most swimming birds; webbed.
III. Palmated ·adj Having the distal portion broad, flat, and more or less divided into lobes;
— said of certain corals, antlers, ·etc.
IV. Palmated ·adj Spreading from the apex of a petiole, as the divisions of a leaf, or leaflets, so as to resemble the hand with outspread fingers.