| Adactylous | { } a. [ Gr. 'a priv. + &unr_; finger. ] (Zool.) (a) Without fingers or without toes. (b) Without claws on the feet (of crustaceous animals). [ 1913 Webster ] Variants: Adactyl |
| Anisodactylous | a. (Zool.) Characterized by unequal toes, three turned forward and one backward, as in most passerine birds. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Artiodactylous | a. (Zool.) Even-toed. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Dactylology | n. [ Gr. da`ktylos finger + -logy. ] The art of communicating ideas by certain movements and positions of the fingers; a form of sign language, especially the manual alphabets used by the deaf and dumb. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ] ☞ There are two different manual alphabets, the one-hand alphabet (which was perfected by Abbé de l'Epée, who died in 1789), and the two-hand alphabet. The latter was probably based on the manual alphabet published by George Dalgarus of Aberdeen, in 1680. See Illustration in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Dactylomancy | n. Dactyliomancy. [ R. ] Am. Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Dactylonomy | n. [ Gr. da`ktylos finger + no`mos law, distribution. ] The art of numbering or counting by the fingers. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Dactylopterous | a. [ Gr. da`ktylos finger + &unr_; wing, fin. ] (Zool.) Having the inferior rays of the pectoral fins partially or entirely free, as in the gurnards. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Dactyloscopidae | n. a natural family of Atlantic fishes comprising the sand stargazers.
Syn. -- family Dactyloscopidae. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ] |
| Dactylotheca | ‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. da`ktylos finger, toe + qh`kh case, box. ] (Zool.) The scaly covering of the toes, as in birds. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| dactylozooid | n. [ Gr. da`ktylos finger + E. zooid. ] (Zool.) A kind of zooid of Siphonophora which has an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth. See Siphonophora. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Didactylous | a. (Zool.) Having only two digits; two-toed. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Discodactylous | a. (Zool.) Having sucking disks on the toes, as the tree frogs. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Heterodactylous | a. [ Hetero- + Gr. &unr_; a toe. ] (Zool.) Having the first and second toes turned backward, as in the trogons. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Hexadactylous | a. [ Gr. &unr_;; "e`x six + &unr_; finger: cf. F. hexadactyle.] (Zool.) Having six fingers or toes. [1913 Webster] |
| Leptodactylous | a. Having slender toes. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Macrodactylous | { } a. (Zool.) Having long toes. [ 1913 Webster ] Variants: Macrodactylic |
| Monodactylous | a. [ Gr. monoda`ktylos; mo`nos single + da`ktylos finger: cf. F. monodactyle. ] (Zool.) Having but one finger or claw. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Pachydactylous | a. (Zool.) Having thick toes. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Pamprodactylous | a. [ Pan- + Gr. pro` forward + da`ktylos finger. ] (Zool.) Having all the toes turned forward, as the colies. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Pentadactyloid | a. [ Pentadactyl + -oid. ] (Anat.) Having the form of, or a structure modified from, a pentadactyl limb. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Syndactylous | a. (Zool.) Having the toes firmly united together for some distance, and without an intermediate web, as the kingfishers; gressorial. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Tetradactylous | a. [ Gr. &unr_;; te`tra- (see Tetra-) + &unr_; finger, toe. ] (Zool.) Having, or characterized by, four digits to the foot or hand. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Tridactylous | a. (Biol.) Tridactyl. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Zygodactylous | { } a. [ Gr. zygo`n a yoke, pair + &unr_; finger, toe: cf. F. zygodactyle. ] (Zool.) Yoke-footed; having the toes disposed in pairs; -- applied to birds which have two toes before and two behind, as the parrot, cuckoo, woodpecker, etc. [ 1913 Webster ] Variants: Zygodactylic |
