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zygodactyl

zygodactyl adjective: having two toes pointing forward, and two pointing backward; zygodactylous.

Adjective

zygodactyl (not comparable)

  1. Having two toes pointing forward, and two pointing backward; zygodactylous.
    • In parrots, the tarsometatarsus has a distinct shape resulting from the particular arrangement of parrot toes. As zygodactyl birds, toes number 2 and 3 are facing forward, while toes 1 and 4 are facing backwards.2016 November 16, Hanneke Meijer, “Sunny steppes? A tiny parrot fossil suggests Siberia was once subtropical”, in The Guardian

Noun

zygodactyl (plural zygodactyls)

  1. Any bird with toes of this kind, such as the parrot.

zygodactyl meaning in Urdu

zygodactyl in Urdu

جفت انگشتہ

Forms of zygodactyl

pluralzygodactyls

Origin of zygodactyl

From zygo- + -dactyl.

Questions about zygodactyl

What does zygodactyl mean?
Zygodactyl means having two toes pointing forward, and two pointing backward; zygodactylous.
What is zygodactyl in Urdu?
Zygodactyl in Urdu is جفت انگشتہ. See Zygodactyl meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is zygodactyl?
Zygodactyl can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near zygodactyl in the dictionary

  1. zygocacti
  2. zygocactus
  3. zygocardiac
  4. zygocondyle
  5. zygocondyles
  6. zygodactyl
  7. zygodactylae
  8. zygodactyle
  9. zygodactyles
  10. zygodactylic
  11. zygodactylism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zygodactyl (page history and authors); zygodactyl (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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