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Fin-footed :: Fin-footed (a.) Having palmate feet.

Papaw :: Papaw (n.) A tree (Carica Papaya) of tropical America, belonging to the order Passifloreae. It has a soft, spongy stem, eighteen or twenty feet high, crowned with a tuft of large, long-stalked, palmately lobed leaves. The milky juice of the plant is said to have the property of making meat tender. Also, its dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit, which is eaten both raw and cooked or pickled..

Fissipalmate :: Fissipalmate (a.) Semipalmate and loboped, as a grebe's foot. See Illust. under Aves..

Palmated :: Palmated (a.) Having the distal portion broad, flat, and more or less divided into lobes; -- said of certain corals, antlers, etc..

Palmatilobed :: Palmatilobed (a.) Palmate, with the divisions separated less than halfway to the common center..

Ringneck :: Ringneck (n.) Any one of several species of small plovers of the genus Aegialitis, having a ring around the neck. The ring is black in summer, but becomes brown or gray in winter. The semipalmated plover (Ae. semipalmata) and the piping plover (Ae. meloda) are common North American species. Called also ring plover, and ring-necked plover..

Palmate :: Palmate (a.) Alt. of Palmate.

Palmated :: Palmated (a.) Having the shape of the hand; resembling a hand with the fingers spread.

Sea Girdles :: Sea girdles () A kind of kelp (Laminaria digitata) with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle..

Oared :: Oared (a.) Totipalmate; -- said of the feet of certain birds. See Illust. of Aves.

Palmatifid :: Palmatifid (a.) Palmate, with the divisions separated but little more than halfway to the common center..

Moose :: Moose (n.) A large cervine mammal (Alces machlis, or A. Americanus), native of the Northern United States and Canada. The adult male is about as large as a horse, and has very large, palmate antlers. It closely resembles the European elk, and by many zoologists is considered the same species. See Elk..

Palmately :: Palmately (adv.) In a palmate manner.

Palmate :: Palmate (n.) A salt of palmic acid; a ricinoleate.

Palmated :: Palmated (a.) Having the anterior toes united by a web, as in most swimming birds; webbed..

Fin-toed :: Fin-toed (a.) Having toes connected by a membrane; palmiped; palmated; also, lobate..

Palmatisected :: Palmatisected (a.) Divided, as a palmate leaf, down to the midrib, so that the parenchyma is interrupted..

Reindeer :: Reindeer (n.) Any ruminant of the genus Rangifer, of the Deer family, found in the colder parts of both the Eastern and Western hemispheres, and having long irregularly branched antlers, with the brow tines palmate..

Totipalmate :: Totipalmate (a.) Having all four toes united by a web; -- said of certain sea birds, as the pelican and the gannet. See Illust. under Aves..

Palmated :: Palmated (a.) Spreading from the apex of a petiole, as the divisions of a leaf, or leaflets, so as to resemble the hand with outspread fingers..

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