Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In anatomy, having finger-like processes; digitate; fingered. A dactylate joint is one formed by the articulation of various long and rather slender processes.
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It has been perpetuated in cordate, not in dactylate characters.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various
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