palmately

Spreading from center

Palmately describes something arranged like fingers spreading from a palm.

In botany, palmately compound leaves have leaflets radiating from a single point at the end of the stem, like a horse chestnut or marijuana leaf: palmately lobed, palmately veined.

The adverb corresponds to the adjective palmate.

botanical

lobed

Having rounded projections

leaf · maple · cannabis · lupine · horse-chestnut · buckeye · fanlike · radiating · digitate · frond

anatomical

fingered

Identified to authorities

outward · splayed · branching · extended · appendages · projecting · diverging · webbed · structure · formation

Opposites
leaf/vein arrangement pattern

palmatelypinnate

Having paired lateral parts

alternately · oppositely · whorled · dichotomously · radially

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