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dactylose

dactylose adjective: finger-like.

Adjective

dactylose (comparative more dactylose, superlative most dactylose)

  1. Finger-like.
    • Distinguished by its elongated dactylose form, and by the bold longitudinally striped pattern of the epidermis.1849, Lovell Augustus Reeve, Conchologia Iconica
    • It consists of a little calcareous cylindrical column, about one tenth of an inch in height, attached by a dactylose base, and surmounted by an expansion in the form of a reversed cone, the margin of whose wide end is extended into several radiating arms, which, like the rest of the fossil, are...1872, George James Allman, A Monograph of the Gymnoblastic Or Tubularian Hydroids, page 172

Forms of dactylose

comparativemore dactylose
superlativemost dactylose

Origin of dactylose

From dactyl- + -ose.

Questions about dactylose

What does dactylose mean?
Dactylose means finger-like.
What part of speech is dactylose?
Dactylose is an adjective.

Words near dactylose in the dictionary

  1. dactylopterids
  2. dactyloscopic
  3. dactyloscopid
  4. dactyloscopids
  5. dactyloscopy
  6. dactylose
  7. dactylospasm
  8. dactylospasms
  9. dactylostyle
  10. dactylostyles
  11. dactylosymphysis

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