dactylous
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Finger-like.
adj
Having or pertaining to fingers or toes.
adj
Pertaining to dactyls.
Example Sentences
- "The larger ossicles are striated on the surface, the striae being produced along the anterior margin so as to give it a dactylous appearance; the median striation is longest, and extends to the point of the rhomboidally-shaped scale."
- "basal dactylous cell of the sterile branchlets tapering into the conical and strongly acuminate ultimate cell ; basal dactylous cell of the fertile branchlets rounded at the apex;"
- "The unfortunate fact that there are no dactylous pedicellariae to be found in the specimen under consideration prevents reaching a definite conclusion. The dactylous pedicellariae of A. owstoni and A. coriaceum are very different— 3-valved and of a very primitive type in the former, 5-valved and of a highly finished type in the latter."
- "The dactylous type reaches its extreme development in species of Araeosoma, where it consists of four or five jaws drawn out into a long narrow shape, topped by a terminal disciform expansion."
- "Congenital dactylous malformations in 15 of 401 malformed lambs ( 3.7 percent ) are described ."
- "Although the Famennian tetrapods have dactylous limbs and more heavily constructed vertebral columns than lobe-finned fishes, they still appear to have been largely aquatic."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: δάκτυλος