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Divided, as a palmate leaf, down to the midrib, so that the parenchyma is interrupted.

Extended; spread out; stretched.

Same as Panicled.

Having a parapet.

d in parquetry; inlaid with wood in small and differently colored figures. One room parqueted with yew, which I liked well. Evelyn.

Separated; devided.

Having a motley coat, or coat of divers colors. Shak.

Having a pate; -- used only in composition; as, long-pated; shallow-pated.

Hanged on a gallows. [R.]

ngement and regularity resembling those of a comb; comblike; as, a pectinate leaf; pectinated muscles. See Illust. (e) of Antennæ.

Having a peduncle; growing on a peduncle; as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.

Made of, or like, pellets; furnished with pellets. [R.] "This pelleted storm." Shak.

Shield-shaped; scutiform; (Bot.) having the stem or support attached to the lower surface, instead of at the base or margin; -- said of a leaf or other organ. -- Pel"tate*ly, adv.

Shaped like a pencil; penicillate.

Winged; plume-shaped.

Combined with a relatively large amount of carbon.

Pierced with a hole or holes, or with pores; having transparent dots resembling holes.

Supplied with perquisites. [Obs.] "Perquisited varlets frequent stand." Savage.

Made heavy or dull; debased. [Obs.] "Pesanted to each lewd thought's control." Marston.

Having a stalk or petiole; as, a petioleate leaf; the petiolated abdomen of certain Hymenoptera.