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Dactylioglyph :: Dactylioglyph (n.) An engraver of gems for rings and other ornaments.

Gama Grass :: Gama grass () A species of grass (Tripsacum dactyloides) tall, stout, and exceedingly productive; cultivated in the West Indies, Mexico, and the Southern States of North America as a forage grass; -- called also sesame grass..

Hexameter :: Hexameter (a.) Having six metrical feet, especially dactyls and spondees..

Leptodactyl :: Leptodactyl (n.) A bird or other animal having slender toes.

Artiodactyla :: Artiodactyla (n. pl.) One of the divisions of the ungulate animals. The functional toes of the hind foot are even in number, and the third digit of each foot (corresponding to the middle finger in man) is asymmetrical and paired with the fourth digit, as in the hog, the sheep, and the ox; -- opposed to Perissodactyla..

Perissodactyla :: Perissodactyla (n. pl.) A division of ungulate mammals, including those that have an odd number of toes, as the horse, tapir, and rhinoceros; -- opposed to Artiodactyla..

Pterodactyl :: Pterodactyl (n.) An extinct flying reptile; one of the Pterosauria. See Illustration in Appendix.

Anisodactyls :: Anisodactyls (n. pl.) A group of perching birds which are anisodactylous.

Alcaic :: Alcaic (n.) A kind of verse, so called from Alcaeus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls..

Heterodactylae :: Heterodactylae (n. pl.) A group of birds including the trogons.

Unciform :: Unciform (n.) The unciform bone. See Illust. of Perissodactyla.

Heterodactyl :: Heterodactyl (n.) One of the Heterodactylae.

Dactylozooid :: Dactylozooid (n.) A kind of zooid of Siphonophora which has an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth. See Siphonophora..

Logaoedic :: Logaoedic (a.) Composed of dactyls and trochees so arranged as to produce a movement like that of ordinary speech.

Dactyl :: Dactyl (n.) A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tegm/n/, E. mer6ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger..

Dactylology :: Dactylology (n.) The art of communicating ideas by certain movements and positions of the fingers; -- a method of conversing practiced by the deaf and dumb.

Tetradactyl :: Tetradactyl (a.) Alt. of Tetradactyl.

Tetradactyle :: Tetradactyle (a.) Tetradactylous.

Dactyliology :: Dactyliology (n.) That branch of archaeology which has to do with finger rings.

Xiphodon :: Xiphodon (n.) An extinct genus of artiodactylous mammals found in the European Tertiary formations. It had slender legs, didactylous feet, and small canine teeth..

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