Dactyl

[Dac·tyl]

A finger or toe in human beings or corresponding body part in other vertebrates

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A poetical foot of three sylables ('f5 'de 'de), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. t'89gm&icr;n&ecr;, E. mer"ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger.

Noun
a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding part in other vertebrates

Noun
a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables


n.
A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tegm/n/, E. mer\b6ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger.

n.
A finger or toe; a digit.

n.
The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean.


Dactyl

Dac"tyl , n. [L. dactylus, Gr. a finger, a dactyl. Cf. Digit.] 1. (Pros.) A poetical foot of three sylables ('f5 'de 'de), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. t'89gm&icr;n&ecr;, E. mer"ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger. [Written also dactyle.] 2. (Zo'94l.) (a) A finger or toe; a digit. (b) The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean.

A poetical foot of three sylables ('f5 'de 'de), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. t'89gm&icr;n&ecr;, E. mer"ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger.

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