dactylus

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

The tip of a cephalopod's tentacle club.

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The tip of a crustacean's leg.

"The distal end of the club, the dactylus (finger), is pointed and attenuated but is covered with hundreds of small suckers."
"[…] suckers of carpus and dactylus portions small […]"
"The tip of the dactylus is short and hooked, with a scoop-shaped depression on the anterior surface."
"Pereiopod 1 […] dactylus with 3 pointed processes on posterior margin (Fig. 2g)."

Etymology tree Pre-Greekbor.? Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos)der. Latin dactylusbor. English dactylus Unadapted borrowing from Latin dactylus. Doublet of dactyl and date.

dactyli (plural)

dactyl

Questions

What does dactylus mean?

Synonym of dactyl (“type of metrical foot”).

Where does dactylus come from?

Etymology tree Pre-Greekbor.? Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos)der. Latin dactylusbor. English dactylus Unadapted borrowing from Latin dactylus. Doublet of dactyl and date.

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