digitatelyadv.
/ˈdɪdʒᵻtətli/, U.S. /ˈdɪdʒᵻˌteɪtli/ Chiefly Botany.
So as to be digitate (digitate adj. 2); in a digitate manner.
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the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [adverb] > in a particular form or manner
digitately1818
tubulously1818
furcately1846
ramosely1856
crenately1864
circinately1866
calceolately1881
1818 T. Nuttall Genera N. Amer. Plants I. 6 Many species [of Veronica] have opposite and sometimes ternate leaves, rarely entire, mostly crenate,..also pinnatifid or rarely digitately divided.
1846 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Zoophytes 619 Branches compressed, digitately subdivided.
1882 Baker in Jrnl. Bot., Brit. & Foreign 20 70 The leaves are simple or digitately trifoliolate.
1933 W. W. Robbins & F. Ramaley Plants Useful to Man xvii. 298 It is the digitately branched rhizome which forms the ginger of commerce.
1960 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 87 173 The leaves are digitately compound and apparently deciduous.
2002 Systematic Bot. 27 727/2 Chadsia is marked by digitately and pinnately arranged leaflets, which are very similar to the digitately compound leaves of Ptycholobium.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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