Definition of Pentadactyle. Meaning of Pentadactyle. Synonyms of Pentadactyle

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Definition of Pentadactyle

Pentadactyle
Pentadactyl Pen`ta*dac"tyl, Pentadactyle Pen`ta*dac"tyle, a. [Gr. ? with five fingers or toes. See Penta-, and Dactyl.] 1. (Anat.) Having five digits to the hand or foot. 2. Having five appendages resembling fingers or toes.

Meaning of Pentadactyle from wikipedia

- In biology, dactyly is the arrangement of digits (fingers and toes) on the hands, feet, or sometimes wings of a tetrapod animal. The term is derived from...
- (‘hand-beast’), is a Tri****ic trace fossil consisting of five-fingered (pentadactyle) footprints and whole tracks. These look, by coincidence, remarkably...
- it as a type of sloth. Vosmaer gave it the French name "le paresseux pentadactyle du Bengale" ("the five-fingered sloth of Bengal"), but Boddaert later...
- They are a moderate-sized, active, diurnal lizards with long, slender, pentadactyle limbs. They are characterised by the common Ctenotus features being:...
- of Scottish-Australian philanthropist Thomas Elder. Soft-bodied, with pentadactyle limbs (meaning five digits on each extremity), S. elderi is a moderately...