Fingery

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling fingers in shape.

    "They are swimming toward some kind of undersea plant (a sea anemone?), itself surrounded by watermelon-size amoeba shapes with long, fingery edges."

  2. 2
    Requiring the use of fingers to climb.

Synonyms

All synonyms
digitiformfingerlike

Example

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"They are swimming toward some kind of undersea plant (a sea anemone?), itself surrounded by watermelon-size amoeba shapes with long, fingery edges."

Etymology

From finger + -y.

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