syndactylus

[sin-dak-tuh-luhs]

noun

Medicine/Medical.

plural

syndactyli 

1. a person having united or webbed fingers or toes.

Word History and Origins

Origin of syndactylus¹

< New Latin, noun use of the adj.: having webbed digits; syn-, -dactylous

Example Sentences

Hylobates syndactylus, laryngeal sac of.

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In Hylobates syndactylus, as the name expresses, two of the toes regularly cohere; and this, as Mr. Blyth informs me, is occasionally the case with the toes of H. agilis, lar, and leuciscus.

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