Word Meanings - DACTYLAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a finger or toe, or to the claw of an insect crustacean. (more info) 1. Pertaining to dactyl; dactylic.

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• INSECTATOR
  A pursuer; a persecutor; a censorious critic. Bailey.
• DACTYLIST
  A writer of dactylic verse.
• DACTYLOZOOID
  A kind of zooid of Siphonophora which has an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth. See Siphonophora.
• DACTYLIOMANCY
  Divination by means of finger rings.
• DACTYLITIS
  An inflammatory affection of the fingers. Gross.
• DACTYLOLOGY
  The art of communicating ideas by certain movements and positions of the fingers; -- a method of conversing practiced by the deaf and dumb. Note: There are two different manual alphabets, the one hand alphabet , and the two hand alphabet. The latter
• DACTYLAR
  Of or pertaining to a finger or toe, or to the claw of an insect crustacean. (more info) 1. Pertaining to dactyl; dactylic.
• DACTYLONOMY
  The art of numbering or counting by the fingers.
• DACTYLIOGLYPH
  An engraver of gems for rings and other ornaments. The inscription of the engraver's name on a finger ring or gem.
• FINGERED
  Having leaflets like fingers; digitate. (more info) 1. Having fingers.
• INSECTION
  A cutting in; incisure; incision.
• DACTYLOPTEROUS
  Having the inferior rays of the pectoral fins partially or entirely free, as in the gurnards.
• INSECTATION
  The act of pursuing; pursuit; harassment; persecution. Sir T. More.
• FINGERLING
  A young salmon. See Parr.
• DACTYLIC
  Dactylic meters. (more info) 1. A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls; as, these lines are dactylics. 2. pl.
• INSECTOLOGER
  An entomologist.
• DACTYLIOLOGY
  That branch of archæology which has to do with gem engraving. That branch of archæology which has to do with finger rings.
• INSECTIVORA
  1. An order of mammals which feed principally upon insects. Note: They are mostly of small size, and their molar teeth have sharp cusps. Most of the species burrow in the earth, and many of those of cold climates hibernate in winter. The order
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• FINGERING
  1. The act or process of handling or touching with the fingers. The mere sight and fingering of money. Grew. 2. The manner of using the fingers in playing or striking the keys of an instrument of music; movement or management of the fingers in
• HEMIDACTYL
  Any species of Old World geckoes of the genus Hemidactylus. The hemidactyls have dilated toes, with two rows of plates beneath.
• TETRADACTYLOUS
  Having, or characterized by, four digits to the foot or hand.
• DISCODACTYL
  One of the tree frogs.
• HERMODACTYL
  A heart-shaped bulbous root, about the size of a finger, brought from Turkey, formerly used as a cathartic. (more info) fr. Gr.
• TRIDACTYL; TRIDACTYLE
  Having three fingers or toes, or composed of three movable parts attached to a common base.
• SYNDACTYLIC
  Syndactilous.
• PACHYDACTYL
  A bird or other animal having thick toes.
• ZYGODACTYLIC; ZYGODACTYLOUS
  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.
• ZYGODACTYLI
  See SCANSORES
• THECODACTYL
  Any one of a group of lizards of the Gecko tribe, having the toes broad, and furnished with a groove in which the claws can be concealed.
• HETERODACTYLAE
  A group of birds including the trogons.
• MACRODACTYL
  One of a group of wading birds having very long toes.