Meaning

Finger-like..

Definitions by Sense

1. Finger-like.
2. Having or pertaining to fingers or toes.
3. Pertaining to dactyls.

Example Sentences

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.

basal dactylous cell of the sterile branchlets tapering into the conical and strongly acuminate ultimate cell ; basal dactylous cell of the fertile branchlets rounded at the apex;

The unfortunate fact that there are no dactylous pedicellariae to be found in the specimen under consideration prevents reaching a definite conclusion. The dactylous pedicellariae of A. owstoni and A. coriaceum are very different— 3-valved and of a very primitive type in the former, 5-valved and of a highly finished type in the latter.

The dactylous type reaches its extreme development in species of Araeosoma, where it consists of four or five jaws drawn out into a long narrow shape, topped by a terminal disciform expansion.

Congenital dactylous malformations in 15 of 401 malformed lambs ( 3.7 percent ) are described .

Although the Famennian tetrapods have dactylous limbs and more heavily constructed vertebral columns than lobe-finned fishes, they still appear to have been largely aquatic.

We presume that they made at least brief ventures onto land because of their dactylous limbs and modified limb girdles.

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.

When Should You Use Dactylous?

Use dactylous when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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