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interdigitate, v. Chiefly Anat.|ɪntəˈdɪdʒɪteɪt|
[f. inter- 1 b + L. digit-us finger + -ate3: cf. digitate v.]
1. intr. To interlock like the fingers of the two hands when clasped; to project or be inserted alternately between each other, as processes of a muscle, etc.; to inosculate by reciprocal serrations.
1847–9Todd Cycl. Anat. IV. 737/2 An equal number of similar processes..with which they interdigitate. 1855R. Owen Lectures on the Comparative Anat. & Physiol. of the Invertibrate Animals (ed. 2) i. 7 The groups of characters that are essential to the true definition of a plant and an animal interdigitate, so to speak, in that low department of the organic world from which the two great branches rise and diverge. 1870Rolleston Anim. Life 193 It [the posterior retractor] inter-digitates very freely with the protractor pedis. 1887Lancet 24 Sept. 604/1 This strapping..is fenestrated, and cut into strips that interdigitate. 1893J. S. Burdon-Sanderson Pres. Addr. Brit. Assoc., Questions..which here, though they do not overlap, at least interdigitate.
2. trans. To cause to interlock or inosculate in this way. In Geol. = interstratify v. 1.
1864in Webster. 1882in Ogilvie. 1969Bennison & Wright Geol. Hist. Brit. Isles viii. 160 In north Devon marine and non-marine beds occur in the same sequence. They are interdigitated due to alternating expansions and contractions of the area of marine deposition. 1974Sci. Amer. Feb. 64/1 The last step..involves interdigitating a set of thick filaments in the spaces between the thin filaments.
Hence interˈdigitating ppl. a.
1875Romanes in Life (1895) 25 Interposing a great number of interdigitating cuts in the course of the spiral. |