palmate: Meaning and Definition of

pal•mate

1. shaped like an open palm or like a hand with the fingers extended, as a leaf or an antler.
2. having four or more lobes or leaflets radiating from a single point.
3. web-footed.
1. decorated with palmettes.
2. (in furniture of the 17th century) having bands of semicircles enclosing a radiating leaf form.