Definition of digitate in English:
 digitate
adjective ˈdɪdʒɪteɪtˈdɪdʒɪtətˈdɪdʒəˌteɪt
technical Shaped like a spread hand.
 Example sentencesExamples
-  In the Southern Hemisphere a different, more strongly digitate type of Ginkgo leaf persists into the Eocene, but we lack data on its occurrence and do not discuss it further here.
 -  This species, contrary to the occurrence of shelbyocerids in the Eminence Formation, is clearly found associated with digitate stromatolite bearing dolomite.
 -  When fully grown, its gigantic buttressed trunk, which stretches up to 10 meters in diameter, abruptly ends in the branches that bear digitate leaves.
 -  These can be either digitate forms, where the mollusks lived between small stromatolite fingers, or larger, domal stromatolite masses, which created areas where mollusks clustered.
 -  Hypseloconids are almost exclusively associated with digitate or small domal stromatolites where they are frequently found in clusters.
 
Origin
  
Mid 17th century: from Latin digitatus, from digitus 'finger, toe'.
   Definition of digitate in US English:
 digitate
adjectiveˈdɪdʒəˌteɪtˈdijəˌtāt
technical Shaped like a spread hand.
 Example sentencesExamples
-  When fully grown, its gigantic buttressed trunk, which stretches up to 10 meters in diameter, abruptly ends in the branches that bear digitate leaves.
 -  These can be either digitate forms, where the mollusks lived between small stromatolite fingers, or larger, domal stromatolite masses, which created areas where mollusks clustered.
 -  Hypseloconids are almost exclusively associated with digitate or small domal stromatolites where they are frequently found in clusters.
 -  In the Southern Hemisphere a different, more strongly digitate type of Ginkgo leaf persists into the Eocene, but we lack data on its occurrence and do not discuss it further here.
 -  This species, contrary to the occurrence of shelbyocerids in the Eminence Formation, is clearly found associated with digitate stromatolite bearing dolomite.
 
Origin
  
Mid 17th century: from Latin digitatus, from digitus ‘finger, toe’.