Dactylous
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Finger-like.
"The larger ossicles are striated on the surface, the striae being produced along the anterior margin so as to give it a dactylous appearance; the median striation is longest, and extends to the point of the rhomboidally-shaped scale."
- 2 Having or pertaining to fingers or toes.
"Congenital dactylous malformations in 15 of 401 malformed lambs ( 3.7 percent ) are described ."
- 3 Pertaining to dactyls.
"There is a charming sonnet at the end, whcih comes to our lips like a draught of vintage that hath been Cooled a long age in the deep deved earth; and is might refreshing after the dactylous jolting of two hundred pages, and indicates the possession of original powers in the writer."
Example
More examples"The larger ossicles are striated on the surface, the striae being produced along the anterior margin so as to give it a dactylous appearance; the median striation is longest, and extends to the point of the rhomboidally-shaped scale."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”) + -ous or dactyl + -ous.