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(Chem.) A salt of palmic acid; a ricinoleate. [Obsoles.]

Having the shape of the hand; resembling a hand with the fingers spread.

In a palmate manner.

Palmately branched, with the branches again palmated.

Semipalmate and loboped, as a grebe's foot. See Illust. under Aves.

Having the anterior toes joined only part way down with a web; half-webbed; as, a semipalmate bird or foot. See Illust. k under Aves.

Having all four toes united by a web;-said of certain sea birds, as the pelican and the gannet. See Illust. under Aves.

Having palmate feet.

Having toes connected by a membrane; palmiped; palmated; also, lobate.

nited States and Canada. The adult male is about as large as a horse, and has very large, palmate antlers. It closely resembles the European elk, and by many zoölogists is considered the same species. See Elk. Moose bird (Zoöl.), the Canada jayor whisky jack. See Whisky jack. -- Moose deer. Same as Moose. -- Moose ya…

Totipalmate; -- said of the feet of certain birds. See Illust. of Aves. Oared shrew (Zoöl.), an aquatic European shrew (Crossopus ciliatus); -- called also black water shrew.

A plant (Ricinus communis) with ornamental peltate and palmately cleft foliage, growing as a woody perennial in the tropics, and cultivated as an herbaceous annual in temperate regions; -- called also castor-oil plant. [Sometimes corrupted into palmcrist.]

Palmate, with the divisions separated but little more than halfway to the common center.

Palmate, with the divisions separated less than halfway to the common center.

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

A species of palm (Borassus flabelliformis) having a straight, black, upright trunk, with palmate leaves. It is found native along the entire northern shores of the Indian Ocean, from the mouth of the Tigris to New Guinea. More than eight hundred uses to which it is put are enumerated by native writers. Its wood is lar…

t, spongy stem, eighteen or twenty feet high, crowned with a tuft of large, long-stalked, palmately lobed leaves. The milky juice of the plant is said to have the property of making meat tender. Also, its dull orange-colored, melon- shaped fruit, which is eaten both raw and cooked or pickled.

Palmate, with the lateral lobes cleft into two or more segments; -- said of a leaf. -- Ped"ate*ly, adv.

A genus of herbs of the Barberry family, having large palmately lobed peltate leaves and solitary flower. There are two species, the American Podohyllum peltatum, or May apple, the Himalayan P. Emodi.

nd Western hemispheres, and having long irregularly branched antlers, with the brow tines palmate.