digitate, fingerlike
(adjective) resembling a finger; “digitate leaves of the horse chestnut”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
digitate (not comparable)
Having digits, fingers or things shaped like fingers; fingerlike
(botany, anatomy) Having parts that spread out from a common point in a finger-like manner.
digitate (third-person singular simple present digitates, present participle digitating, simple past and past participle digitated)
To point out as with the finger.
(botany, anatomy) To spread out from a common point in a finger-like manner.
Source: Wiktionary
Dig"i*tate, v. t. Etym: [LL. digitatus, p. p. of digitare, fr. L. digitus. See Digit.]
Definition: To point out as with the finger. [R.] Robinson (Eudoxa).
Dig"i*tate, Dig"i*ta`ted, a. Etym: [L. digitatus having fingers.] (Bot.)
Definition: Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Also, in general, characterized by digitation.
– Dig"i*tate*ly, adv.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
12 January 2025
(noun) (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition; “owls have nocturnal habits”; “she had a habit twirling the ends of her hair”; “long use had hardened him to it”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
