palmately

1. 1.

   in a palmate manner

   “palmately cleft”

Questions about palmately

What does palmately mean?

palmately means "in a palmate manner".

How many syllables are in palmately?

palmately has 4 syllables and divides as pal-ma-te-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is palmately a common word?

palmately 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.