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Dactyl

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

n. A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented or of one long syllable followed by two short, as in flattery.

n. A finger, toe, or similar part or structure; a digit.

n. A poetical foot of three syllables (— ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented.

n. A poetical foot of three sylables (--- ˘ ˘), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented

n. A finger or toe; a digit.

n. The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean.

n. A unit of linear measure; a finger-breadth; a digit: used in reference to Greek, Egyptian, and Babylonian measures.

n. In prosody, a foot of three syllables, the first long, the second and third short.

n. In anatomy: A digit, whether of the hand or foot; a finger or a toe.

n. A toe or digit of the hind foot only, when the word digit is restricted to a finger.

n. In zoology, a dactylus.

n. The piddock, Pholas dactylus. See dactylus .—

To move nimbly; leap; bound.

n. In Greek antiquity, a mythological creature supposed to have the secrets of fire and of iron-working.

n. a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding body part in other vertebrates

n. a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables

"Because of the lever action, the striking limb called a dactyl moves much faster than the releasing chitin and attains the tremendous acceleration."

Words that are more generic or abstract

metrical unit foot metrical foot

cyclic dactyl æolic dactyls anapestic dactyl spondee finger anapest

dactyle

Words with the same meaning

digit

Words with the same terminal sound

tactile

Words that are found in similar contexts

spondee iamb trochee pyrrhic philter hemistich witch 37