7 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
adjective (of the feet of water birds) having three toes connected by a thin fold of skin
adjective of a leaf shape; having leaflets or lobes radiating from a common point
originLearned borrowing from Latin palmātus (“hand-shaped, palm-leaf shaped”), from palma (“palm, palm-tree”). Equivalent to palm + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Compare French palmé.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0