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English
Etymology
From digitate + -ation.
Pronunciation
Noun
digitation (countable and uncountable, plural digitations)
- (obsolete) Touching; manipulation with the fingers.
1749, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Penguin, published 1985, page 64:At length, I resorted to the only present remedy, that of vain attempts at digitation, [...] where the pain my fingers gave me in striving for admission, though they procured me a slight satisfaction for the present, started an apprehension, which I could not be easy until I had communicated to Phoebe and received her explanations upon it.
- (zoology, botany) Any of various finger-like processes (outgrowths) found in plant and animal tissues.
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Noun
digitation f (plural digitations)
- (botany) digitation
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