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Adactylous :: Adactylous (a.) Without fingers or without toes.

Dactylic :: Dactylic (n.) Dactylic meters.

Dactylopterous :: Dactylopterous (a.) Having the inferior rays of the pectoral fins partially or entirely free, as in the gurnards..

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..

Perissodactyla :: Perissodactyla (n. pl.) A division of ungulate mammals, including those that have an odd number of toes, as the horse, tapir, and rhinoceros; -- opposed to Artiodactyla..

Pentadactyle :: Pentadactyle (a.) Having five appendages resembling fingers or toes.

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

Discodactylia :: Discodactylia (n. pl.) A division of amphibians having suctorial disks on the toes, as the tree frogs..

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

Artiodactylous :: Artiodactylous (a.) Even-toed.

Pisiform :: Pisiform (n.) A small bone on the ulnar side of the carpus in man and many mammals. See Illust. of Artiodactyla.

Discodactyl :: Discodactyl (n.) One of the tree frogs.

Pachydactyl :: Pachydactyl (n.) A bird or other animal having thick toes.

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..

Dactyliography :: Dactyliography (n.) The art of writing or engraving upon gems.

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

Anisodactyla :: Anisodactyla (n. pl.) Alt. of Anisodactyl.

Zygodactyle :: Zygodactyle (n.) Any zygodactylous bird.

Hexameter :: Hexameter (n.) A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity..

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

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