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dactyloid

dactyloid adjective: resembling a finger.

Adjective

dactyloid (not comparable)

  1. Resembling a finger

Noun

dactyloid (plural dactyloids)

  1. Any lizard/anole of the family Dactyloidae.

Forms of dactyloid

pluraldactyloids

Origin of dactyloid

From dactyl- + -oid.

Questions about dactyloid

What does dactyloid mean?
Dactyloid means resembling a finger.
What part of speech is dactyloid?
Dactyloid can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near dactyloid in the dictionary

  1. dactylogyrid
  2. dactylogyridean
  3. dactylogyrideans
  4. dactylogyrids
  5. dactylogyrosis
  6. dactyloid
  7. dactyloids
  8. dactylological
  9. dactylology
  10. dactylomancy
  11. dactylomegaly

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