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syndactylus

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[sin-dak-tuh-luhs] / sɪnˈdæk tə ləs /

noun

Medicine/Medical.

plural

syndactyli

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

Etymology

Origin of syndactylus

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

Example Sentences

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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.

From The Descent of Man by Darwin, Charles

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