pedate
{{Short description|A biological structure that resembles feet, or has a quality of feet}}
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In biology, a pedate structure is a structure that resembles feet, or has a quality of feet. It derives from the Latin verb "pedo", meaning "to furnish with feet".
Plants
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Botanically, the term is used to describe compound leaves, veins, or other structures, where the divisions of that structure arise from a central point (as in a palmate structure), but the lateral divisions are further cleft in two.{{cite book | title=Plant Identification Terminology | first1=James G. | last1=Harris | first2=Melinda Woolf | last2=Harris | edition=2nd | publisher=Spring Lake Publishing | location=Spring Lake, Utah | year=1994 | isbn=0-9640221-6-8 | page=81}} More broadly, it can be used to describe a compound leaf with a terminal leaflet and branching axes to either side which curve outward and backward, to which leaflets are attached on the outer side of the curve.{{cite book | first=Stuart Max | last=Walters | title=The European garden flora | publisher=Cambridge University Press | year=2000 | page=674 | isbn=978-0-521-42097-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1KmYnof5JYQC&pg=PA674}}
Animals
In animals, the term "pedate" is used to mean "having feet," a sense that includes the tube feet of echinoderms as well as the vertebrate foot.
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