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单词 dactyl
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dactyln.

/ˈdaktɪl/
Forms: Also Middle English -ylle, Middle English–1500s -ile, 1500s -il, -ill, 1600s–1800s -yle.
Etymology: < (perhaps through French dactyle) Latin dactylus, < Greek δάκτυλος, a finger, a date, a dactyl (from its 3 joints).
1. The fruit of the date-palm; a date. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > stone fruit > [noun] > date
datec1300
dactyl1483
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > date
datec1300
dactyl1483
satchel-date1633
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. cxvi. 1009 In Syria and in Egipte ofte þe fruyt þerof [sc. Palma] is ycleped dactilus.]
1483 Cath. Angl. 88 A Dactylle fute (fruytt A.), dactilis.
?1541 R. Copland Formularie of Helpes of Woundes & Sores in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens sig. Xijv Powdre of dactiles.
1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia sig. Aiij Thus while the gratefull Age offer whole springs Of Palme, my zeale an humble Dactyle brings.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Dactyle,..a Date, the fruit of the Palm-Tree.
2. Prosody. A metrical foot consisting of a long syllable followed by two short (or, in modern verse, of an accented syllable and two unaccented).
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] > foot > dactyl
dactylc1420
dactylet1597
c1420 Wyclif Bible, Job Prol. (1850) II. 671 Vers of sixe feet, rennende with dactile and sponde feet.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. L2 The French..hath not one word, that hath his accent in..Antepenultima, and little more hath the Spanish: and therefore, very gracelesly may they vse Dactiles.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. xiv. 106 This distique..standing all vpon perfect dactils.
1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 13 If..upon the first scanning, he knows a sponde from a dactyl..A forward Boy, cries the School-Master.
1779 Burney in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 69 196 If he discovers a partiality for any particular measure, it is for dactyls of one long and two short notes.
1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe II. v. 336 The first foot of each verse is generally a dactyle.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 30.
3. A mollusc, the piddock ( Pholas dactylus).
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1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 528 The Dactyle Pholas.
4.
a. A finger or toe.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > digit > finger > [noun]
fingerOE
talons1594
nimblesa1637
the ten stealers1655
Welsh comb1788
forks1819
hooks1829
fingerlet1836
bread hook1845
dactyl1889
grab-hook1946
1889 Cent. Dict. Dactyl, a digit, whether of the hand or foot.
b. = dactylopodite n. at dactylo- comb. form .
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1960 T. H. Waterman Physiol. Crustacea I. xvii. 564 In this crab autotomy never results after injury to the dactyl, the most distal segment of a walking leg.
c. A part of the pretarsus of an insect.
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1946 Nature 9 Nov. 668/2 In ecdysis, any available rough surface is used to anchor the dactyl-claws of the walking legs.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

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