Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
Wiktionary
- adj. zoology Characterized by unequal toes, three turned forward and one backward, as in most passerine birds.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Zoöl.) Characterized by unequal toes, three turned forward and one backward, as in most passerine birds.
Examples
“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 Ornithorhyneus, and rotten to the heart with holophotal subterranean extemporaneousness.”
Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells.
“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; with an introduction by William Dean Howells.
“He read it: "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; with an introduction by William Dean Howells.
“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.”
“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.”
“Ornithorhyncus, as foreshadowed by the unintelligibility of its plesiosaurian anisodactylous aspects. ”
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