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单词 digitate
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digitateadj.n.

Brit. /ˈdɪdʒᵻteɪt/, U.S. /ˈdɪdʒᵻˌteɪt/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin digitātus.
Etymology: < classical Latin digitātus having toes < digitus finger, toe (see digit n.) + -ātus -ate suffix2. In sense A. 2a after scientific Latin digitatum ( Linnaeus Philosophia Botanica (1751) iii. 47). N.E.D. (1896) gives the pronunciation as (di·dʒitĕt) /ˈdɪdʒɪtət/.
A. adj.
1. Zoology. Of a quadruped: having separate or divided digits or toes. Cf. digital adj. 8. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [adjective] > having separate digits > of quadrupeds
digitated1646
digitate1661
digital1833
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. B2v Solipeds and bisulcs usually being greater than the digitate.
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 470/2 The characters of the Carnivora as distinct from the rest of the digitate animals.
2.
a. Botany. Chiefly of leaves: having deep radiating divisions; (now esp.) designating compound leaves consisting of a number of leaflets arising from one point, as in the horse chestnut (genus Aesculus). digitate-pinnate adj. (of a pinnate leaf) having leaflets borne on multiple secondary petioles arising from a single point (now rare).
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1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. 183 Digitate, fingered; when the Apex of a single Petiole connects many Folioles.
1787 T. Martyn tr. J. J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. (ed. 2) xv. 168 The third species..is a small plant, quite smooth, with digitate leaves.
1812 R. J. Thornton Brit. Flora IV. 98 Leaves, inferior lyrate-pinnate, superior digitate-pinnate; leaflets simple.
1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 423 Spikes digitate, spikelets minute—Cynodon.
1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. iii. §4. 101 Palmate or Digitate Leaves..in which the leaflets all stand on the summit of the petiole.
1904 W. N. Geddes Brief Flora Eastern U.S. 111 Leaves digitate-pinnate, with 4 pinnæ.
1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. vi. 136 Because of the leaf's likeness to the fingers of an open hand the leaf is said to be digitate.
2003 Paleobiology 29 85/2 In the Southern Hemisphere a different, more strongly digitate type of Ginkgo leaf persists into the Eocene.
b. Zoology. Of an organ or body part: having, or consisting of, several finger-like processes or divisions.
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > physical arrangement or condition > [adjective] > composed of many parts > divided into parts resembling fingers
digitate1826
digitated1839
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. 338 Radius,..a single subdivision of a digitate wing.
1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 373 Wings..cleft or digitate.
1902 Trans. Amer. Microsc. Soc. 1901 23 182 In older proglottides the walls of the uterus become slightly digitate by the growth of shallow..pouches.
1939 T. L. Green Pract. Animal Biol. i. 35 The testes consist of two pairs of flattened digitate (hand-shaped) organs lying within the median vesiculæ seminales.
1967 Bull. Entomol. Res. 57 200 Uncus simple, tapered and somewhat digitate apically and curving slightly ventrad.
2001 G. W. Rouse & F. Pleijel Polychaetes xxv. 116/1 The neuropodia have rounded parapodial lobes and digitate subacicular projections.
B. n.
Zoology. A digitate quadruped. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > paw or foot > quadruped > quadruped with digits
digitate1661
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. A4v Oviperous digitates, having diverse toes, and bringing forth eggs.
1897 Amer. Naturalist 31 320 The construction of complete vertebræ..in the series of the Amiidæ, as in that of the Stegocephali and all living digitates begins in the embolomerous form.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

digitatev.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin digitus , -ate suffix3.
Etymology: < classical Latin digitus finger (see digit n.) + -ate suffix3. Compare post-classical Latin digitare to point out, indicate, to touch or handle with the fingers (from 12th cent. in British sources). Compare earlier digit v.
Obsolete. rare.
1.
a. intransitive. To indicate or determine a direction.In quot. perhaps with punning allusion to the idea of sexual touching: cf. digitation n. 1b, digitize v. 1.
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1657 H. Crompton Poems 94 He was well known to be a knowing man. And now he's worthy, though his office be To digitate, and gravely to ore-see.
b. transitive. To indicate, point out. Cf. digit v., indigitate v. 2.
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society > communication > indication > gesturing or gesture > hand gesture > [verb (transitive)] > express with fingers > point to
showa1225
fingera1425
point1477
indigit1603
indigitate1623
digit1628
digitate1658
digitize1736
indicate1808
1658 J. Robinson Endoxa viii. 46 The supine resting on Water onely by retention of Air..doth digitate a reason.
1661 W. Annand Fides Catholica (Author to his Bk.) sig. aav So with thy faithfull Optick, digitate and shew The way that's new; Make known that Via, Lactea, Heavenly path, Cal'd Catholick Faith.
1779 H. Cowly Who's the Dupe? i. 8 Grad. These exuberances, Mr. Doiley, indigitate unbounded liberty. Doil. Digitate, or not—ifackins, if the Ladies would take my advice, they'd return to their distaffs.]
2. intransitive. To divide into finger-like processes or parts. Also: = interdigitate v.
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the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > have particular form or function [verb (intransitive)] > form particular shape
ramify1576
digitate1796
elongate1801
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [verb (intransitive)] > become divided or branch
digitate1837
furcate1846
1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xix. 68 These again diverge or digitate in long broad leaves.
1837 J. Quain Elements Anat. (ed. 4) 383 At its attachment to the cartilages of the ribs, it digitates with the diaphragm.
1840 G. V. Ellis Demonstr. Anat. 39 Processes of it..cross or digitate with the white bundles.
1874 W. Watson Youatt's Horse (rev. ed.) xiii. 254 The attachment is peculiarly strong; it digitates with the transverse muscle of the abdomen, and encircles the whole of the lateral and inferior part of the chest.
3. transitive. To express with the fingers; to mime or sign.Apparently an isolated use.
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society > communication > indication > gesturing or gesture > hand gesture > [verb (transitive)] > express with fingers
digitate1823
1823 New Monthly Mag. 7 498 They talk with their fingers and digitate quotations from Shakspeare.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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