adj. 1. Resembling or functioning as a foot: pedate appendages. 2. Botany Having palmately divided lobes with the lateral lobes cleft or divided: a pedate leaf. [Latin pedātus, past participle of pedāre, to furnish with feet, from pēs, ped-, foot; see ped- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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