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[], (Adjective)
Definitions:
- Shaped like a foot, especially that of a bird; (Botany) designating or characterized by a leaf shape or venation pattern similar to a palmate or digitate arrangement, but with the lobes, leaflets, or veins not all arising from a single central point, the lateral divisions being further subdivided or fused near the base; (also) designating or characterized by the arrangement of other parts in such a pattern, with successive lateral branches arising near the base of earlier branches.
- Having feet, footed.
- Expanded (at the end) so as to resemble a foot at the end of a leg.
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Origin
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late 17th century (in an earlier sense). From classical Latin pedātus having feet from ped-, pēs foot + -ātus
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