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Dactyl   Listen
noun
dactyl  n.  
1.
(Pros.) A poetical foot of three sylables, one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, E. merciful; so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger. (Written also dactyle)
2.
(Zool.)
(a)
A finger or toe; a digit.
(b)
The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean.





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Words linked to "Dactyl" :   metrical foot, dactylic, vertebrate, metrical unit, nail, craniate, appendage, phalanx


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