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Macrodactylic :: Macrodactylic (a.) Alt. of Macrodactylou.

Tridactylous :: Tridactylous (a.) Tridactyl.

Dactylomancy :: Dactylomancy (n.) Dactyliomancy.

Gama Grass :: Gama grass () A species of grass (Tripsacum dactyloides) tall, stout, and exceedingly productive; cultivated in the West Indies, Mexico, and the Southern States of North America as a forage grass; -- called also sesame grass..

Dactylic :: Dactylic (a.) Pertaining to, consisting chiefly or wholly of, dactyls; as, dactylic verses..

Phanerodactyla :: Phanerodactyla (n. pl.) Same as Saururae.

Didactylous :: Didactylous (a.) Having only two digits; two-toed.

Panto- :: Panto- () Combining forms signifying all, every; as, panorama, pantheism, pantagraph, pantograph. Pan- becomes pam- before b or p, as pamprodactylous..

Pentadactyl :: Pentadactyl (a.) Alt. of Pentadactyl.

Tamandu :: Tamandu (n.) A small ant-eater (Tamandua tetradactyla) native of the tropical parts of South America.

Tetradactylous :: Tetradactylous (a.) Having, or characterized by, four digits to the foot or hand..

Gressorious :: Gressorious (a.) Adapted for walking; anisodactylous; as the feet of certain birds and insects. See Illust. under Aves.

One-hand :: One-hand (a.) Employing one hand; as, the one-hand alphabet. See Dactylology..

Discodactylous :: Discodactylous (a.) Having sucking disks on the toes, as the tree frogs..

Zygodactyl :: Zygodactyl (n.) Alt. of Zygodactyl.

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..

Metacarpus :: Metacarpus (n.) That part of the skeleton of the hand or forefoot between the carpus and phalanges. In man it consists of five bones. See Illust. of Artiodactyla.

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

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.

Dactylology :: Dactylology (n.) The art of communicating ideas by certain movements and positions of the fingers; -- a method of conversing practiced by the deaf and dumb.

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