Definition of dactyl

What does the word dactyl mean?

part of speech: noun

[Greek] A digit; finger, or toe; terminal ventral projection of praetarsus in scorpions; dactylus.

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Piece of ground devoted to growning flowers, fruit, or vegetables(KITCHEN. MARKET, g.); (pl.) ornamental grounds for public resort(usu. botanical, zoological, &c., gg.); specially fertile region(the g. England, Kent, Worcestershire, &c.); (pl. with name prefixed as Onslow, Spring. Gg.) set houses in street, square, &c.; G., philosophy school Epicurus(cf. PORCH, ACADEMY); (attrib.; without hyphen) cultivated, not wild, (plants, -cress; common slang, ordinary), living gg. (-spider; -white, kind butterfly; -warbler, bird); -engine, portable forcepump watering; -frame, forcing-frame plants; -glass, bell-glass covering plant; -party, social meeting on lawn g.; -plot, used -seat, bench &c. use similar seat one two top omnibus; -stuff, vegetables& fruit; hence gardened, gardenesque, aa., gardening n. (Vb) cultivate a g. [old Northern French] g. city, industrial or other town laid out systematically with a view to spacious and attractive surroundings; so suburb.