palmate leaf

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   a leaf resembling an open hand; having lobes radiating from a common point

   Broadercompound leaf

   Narrowerpedate leaf

Questions about palmate leaf

What does palmate leaf mean?

palmate leaf means "a leaf resembling an open hand; having lobes radiating from a common point".

Is palmate leaf a common word?

palmate leaf is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.