meaning of dactyl
1. 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.
2. A finger or toe; a digit.
3. The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean.
4. a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding part in other vertebrates
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