Definition of: palmate

(pal′māt) adjective
1. Resembling an open hand.
2. Broad and flat, with fingerlike projections, as the antlers of the moose, or some corals.
3. Bot. Having lobes (usually five) that diverge from the apex of the petiole, as a leaf.
4. Zool. Webbed, as a bird's foot. Also pal′mat·ed. [<L palmatus, pp. of palmare mark with the palm of the hand <palma a hand]
—pal′mate·ly adverb