adj having the shape of the hand; resembling a hand with the fingers spread.
2. palmated ·adj having the anterior toes united by a web, as in most swimming birds; webbed.
3. palmated ·adj having the distal portion broad, flat, and more or less divided into lobes;
said of certain corals, antlers, ·etc.
4. palmated ·adj spreading from the apex of a petiole, as the divisions of a leaf, or leaflets, so as to resemble the hand with outspread fingers.