dactylus
Collocations
3ADJ.
pointed, short, small
VERB + DACTYLUS
club, tip
DACTYLUS + NOUN
finger, portions
Definitions
noun
Synonym of dactyl (“type of metrical foot”).
The tip of a cephalopod's tentacle club
The distal end of the club, the dactylus (finger), is pointed and attenuated but is covered with hundreds of small suckers.
[…] suckers of carpus and dactylus portions small […]
The tip of a crustacean's leg
The tip of the dactylus is short and hooked, with a scoop-shaped depression on the anterior surface.
Pereiopod 1 […] dactylus with 3 pointed processes on posterior margin (Fig. 2g).
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3The distal end of the club, the dactylus (finger), is pointed and attenuated but is covered with hundreds of small suckers.
Wiktionary[…] suckers of carpus and dactylus portions small […]
WiktionaryThe tip of the dactylus is short and hooked, with a scoop-shaped depression on the anterior surface.
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