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Dactyl

Dactyl Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Dactyl? [n] a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding part in other vertebrates [n] a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables Synonyms \| Synonyms for Dactyl: digit Related Terms \| Find terms related to Dactyl: accent \| accentuation \| Alexandrine \| amphibrach \| amphimacer \| anacrusis \| anapest \| antispast \| arsis \| bacchius \| beat \| cadence \| caesura \| catalexis \| chloriamb \| chloriambus \| colon \| counterpoint \| cretic \| dactylic hexameter \| diaeresis \| dimeter \| dipody \| dochmiac \| elegiac \| elegiac couplet \| elegiac pentameter \| emphasis \| epitrite \| feminine caesura \| foot \| heptameter \| heptapody \| heroic couplet \| hexameter \| hexapody \| iamb \| iambic \| iambic pentameter \| ictus \| ionic \| jingle \| lilt \| masculine caesura \| measure \| meter \| metrical accent \| metrical foot \| metrical group \| metrical unit \| metron \| molossus \| mora \| movement \| numbers \| paeon \| pentameter \| pentapody \| period \| proceleusmatic \| pyrrhic \| quantity \| rhythm \| spondee \| sprung rhythm \| stress \| swing \| syzygy \| tetrameter \| tetrapody \| tetraseme \| thesis \| tribrach \| trimeter \| tripody \| triseme \| trochee See Also \| appendage \| craniate \| extremity \| finger \| foot \| member \| metrical foot \| metrical unit \| nail \| phalanx \| toe \| vertebrate Dactyl In Webster's Dictionary \Dac"tyl\, n. [L. dactylus, Gr. da`ktylos a finger, a dactyl. Cf. {Digit}.] 1. (Pros.) A poetical foot of three sylables (--- [crescent] [crescent]), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. t["e]gm[i^]n[e^], E. mer\b6ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger. [Written also {dactyle}.] 2. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A finger or toe; a digit. (b) The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean.

Dactyl Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Dactyl?

[n] a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding part in other vertebrates
[n] a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables

Synonyms | Synonyms for Dactyl: digit

Dactyl In Webster's Dictionary

\Dac"tyl\, n. [L. dactylus, Gr. da`ktylos a finger, a
dactyl. Cf. {Digit}.]
1. (Pros.) A poetical foot of three sylables (--- [crescent]
   [crescent]), one long followed by two short, or one
   accented followed by two unaccented; as, L.
   t["e]gm[i^]n[e^], E. mer\b6ciful; -- so called from the
   similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a
   finger. [Written also {dactyle}.]

2. (Zo["o]l.)
   (a) A finger or toe; a digit.
   (b) The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or
       crustacean.

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