anisodactylous

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Ornithorhyncus, as foreshadowed by the unintelligibility of its plesiosaurian anisodactylous aspects. "

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  1. Unequal-toed; having the toes unlike, In mammals, of or pertaining to the Anisodactyla; perissodactyl; pachydermatous. See cut under perissodactyl. In ornithology, of or pertaining to the anisodactyls, or Anisodactyli. Equivalent forms are anisodactyl, anisodactyle, and anisodactylic.

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  • Ornithorhyncus, as foreshadowed by the unintelligibility of its plesiosaurian anisodactylous aspects. " —  Mark Twain's Speeches
  • One day there came a note from the editor requiring me to write ten pages -- on this revolting text: "Considerations concerning the alleged subterranean holophotal extemporaneousness of the conchyliaceous superimbrication of the Ornithorhyncus, as foreshadowed by the unintelligibility of its plesiosaurian anisodactylous aspects." —  Mark Twain's Speeches
  • I seldom say a harsh word to any one, but I was not master of myself then, and I spoke right out and called him an anisodactylous plesiosaurian conchyliaceous Ornithorhyncus, and rotten to the heart with holoaophotal subterranean extemporaneousness. —  Mark Twain's Speeches
 

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  1. from New Latin anisodactylus: see anisodactyl.
 

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