Origin: Latin suffix -ate
Palmate has 4 different meanings across 1 category:
A salt or ester of ricinoleic acid (formerly called palmic acid); a ricinoleate.
(of the feet of water birds) having three toes connected by a thin fold of skin
of a leaf shape; having leaflets or lobes radiating from a common point
Having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point.