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Dactylet :: Dactylet (n.) A dactyl.

Hariali Grass :: Hariali grass () The East Indian name of the Cynodon Dactylon; dog's-grass.

Pteranodontia :: Pteranodontia (n. pl.) A group of pterodactyls destitute of teeth, as in the genus Pteranodon..

Capitulum :: Capitulum (n.) A knoblike protuberance of any part, esp. at the end of a bone or cartilage. [See Illust. of Artiodactyla.].

Dactyl :: Dactyl (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. mer6ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger..

Logaoedic :: Logaoedic (a.) Composed of dactyls and trochees so arranged as to produce a movement like that of ordinary speech.

Porpita :: Porpita (n.) A genus of bright-colored Siphonophora found floating in the warmer parts of the ocean. The individuals are round and disk-shaped, with a large zooid in the center of the under side, surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids, and by slender dactylozooids near the margin. The disk contains a central float, or pneumatocyst..

Dactylioglyphi :: Dactylioglyphi (n.) The art or process of gem engraving.

Chirology :: Chirology (n.) The art or practice of using the manual alphabet or of communicating thoughts by sings made by the hands and fingers; a substitute for spoken or written language in intercourse with the deaf and dumb. See Dactylalogy.

Heterodactylous :: Heterodactylous (a.) Having the first and second toes turned backward, as in the trogons..

Tridactyl :: Tridactyl (a.) Alt. of Tridactyl.

Alcaic :: Alcaic (n.) A kind of verse, so called from Alcaeus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls..

Hexameter :: Hexameter (a.) Having six metrical feet, especially dactyls and spondees..

Hemidactyl :: Hemidactyl (n.) Any species of Old World geckoes of the genus Hemidactylus. The hemidactyls have dilated toes, with two rows of plates beneath..

Dactylar :: Dactylar (a.) Of or pertaining to a finger or toe, or to the claw of an insect crustacean..

Heterodactyl :: Heterodactyl (n.) One of the Heterodactylae.

Monodactylous :: Monodactylous (a.) Having but one finger or claw.

Didactyl :: Didactyl (n.) An animal having only two digits.

Anisodactylous :: Anisodactylous (a.) Characterized by unequal toes, three turned forward and one backward, as in most passerine birds..

Wing :: Wing (n.) One of the two anterior limbs of a bird, pterodactyl, or bat. They correspond to the arms of man, and are usually modified for flight, but in the case of a few species of birds, as the ostrich, auk, etc., the wings are used only as an assistance in running or swimming..

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