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Heterodactylae :: Heterodactylae (n. pl.) A group of birds including the trogons.

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

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..

Syndesmography :: Syndactylous (a.) Having the toes firmly united together for some distance, and without an intermediate web, as the kingfishers; gressorial..

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

Macrodactylous :: Macrodactylous (a.) Having long toes.

Dactyliomancy :: Dactyliomancy (n.) Divination by means of finger rings.

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..

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

Dactyl :: Dactyl (n.) The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean.

Unau :: Unau (n.) The two-toed sloth (Cholopus didactylus), native of South America. It is about two feet long. Its color is a uniform grayish brown, sometimes with a reddish tint..

Dactylomancy :: Dactylomancy (n.) Dactyliomancy.

Radius :: Radius (n.) The preaxial bone of the forearm, or brachium, corresponding to the tibia of the hind limb. See Illust. of Artiodactyla..

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

Pachy- :: Pachy- () A combining form meaning thick; as, pachyderm, pachydactyl..

Sapphic :: Sapphic (a.) Belonging to, or in the manner of, Sappho; -- said of a certain kind of verse reputed to have been invented by Sappho, consisting of five feet, of which the first, fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second is a spondee, and the third a dactyl..

Siamang :: Siamang (n.) A gibbon (Hylobates syndactylus), native of Sumatra. It has the second and third toes partially united by a web..

Anisodactyls :: Anisodactyls (n. pl.) A group of perching birds which are anisodactylous.

Unciform :: Unciform (n.) The unciform bone. See Illust. of Perissodactyla.

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