In names of plants: Having jagged leaves or flowers.

Of (a part of) a plant or animal: having a crown-like structure, crest, tuft, marking, etc. Also (of a bird or other animal): having a head, or the…

Divided into or bearing finger-like lobes or sections; digitate. Botany. Of a plant or its leaf, flower, fruit, root, etc. (Cf. digitate, adj. 2a, pa…

Of a plant: having parts shaped like a hand; (of a part) having such a shape. Chiefly in names of plants. Cf. palmate, adj. 2 3. Obsolete.

Of a corolla or other part: Hood-shaped, cucullate; hence, of a flower or plant: Having a hood-shaped corolla, calyx, etc., as hooded matweed, hooded…

Of trees or plants, their stems, etc.: Not furnished with branches.

Chiefly Botany. Star-shaped; arranged in the form of a star; stellate.

Bell-shaped.

Bearing a column or columns. In Botany cf. column, n. 7.

Sword-shaped (see quots.).

attributive with the sense ‘resembling a bottlebrush’.

Chiefly of a plant: resembling an antler or antlers, esp. in being branched.

Resembling a brush in having an elongated structure with hairs or bristles at one end.

(See quots.)

spec. Applied to many species of animals and plants distinguished by a crest; = Latin cristatus, -a. See also compounds.

(un-, prefix1 affix 2a(b).)

(un-, prefix1 affix 1.)

Botany. Of a plant: resembling a palm tree in form.