dactyl

n. division of poetry containing an accented syllable before two unaccented syllables

Dactyl may mean:Dactyl, a creature in Greek mythology.Pterodactyl, a flying reptile from the Triassic to Cretaceous PeriodDactyl, a metrical foot consisting of one long syllable and two short as in "Catherine." (Derived from the Greek word for finger, as a finger has one long segment and two shorter ones.)Dactyl, the small satellite orbiting the asteroid 243 Ida.Finger, in medical terminology, from the Greek δάκτυλος.
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Noun
1. a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables
(hypernym) metrical foot, foot, metrical unit
2. a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding part in other vertebrates
(synonym) digit
(hypernym) extremity, appendage, member
(hyponym) finger
(part-holonym) vertebrate, craniate
(part-meronym) phalanx

(n.)
The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean.
  

(n.)
A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tegm/n/, E. mer\b6ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger.
  

(n.)
A finger or toe; a digit.
  

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