Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Digitate \Dig"i*tate\, Digitated \Dig"i*ta`ted\, a. [L.
   digitatus having fingers.] (Bot.)
   Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the
   hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Also, in
   general, characterized by digitation. -- {Dig"i*tate*ly},
   adv.