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syndactylus

[ sin-dak-tuh-luhs ]

noun

, Medicine/Medical.
, plural syn·dac·ty·li [sin-, dak, -t, uh, -lahy, -lee].
  1. a person having united or webbed fingers or toes.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of syndactylus1

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

Hylobates syndactylus, laryngeal sac of.

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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