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didactyl

didactyl adjective: having only two toes, fingers or claws.

Adjective

didactyl (not comparable)

  1. Having only two toes, fingers or claws.

Noun

didactyl (plural didactyls)

  1. A didactyl animal.

Forms of didactyl

pluraldidactyls

Origin of didactyl

From di- + -dactyl.

Questions about didactyl

What does didactyl mean?
Didactyl means having only two toes, fingers or claws.
What part of speech is didactyl?
Didactyl can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near didactyl in the dictionary

  1. didacticness
  2. didactics
  3. didaction
  4. didactive
  5. didacts
  6. didactyl
  7. didactyle
  8. didactylism
  9. didactylous
  10. didactyls
  11. didactyly

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