tetradactyladj.n.
/tɛtrəˈdaktɪl/ A. adj.
Having four fingers or toes.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [adjective] > having separate digits > having several digits > having four digits
tetradactylous1828
tetradactyl1835
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xvii. 194 The foot of birds is most commonly tetradactyle, with one toe or thumb at the heel and the other three in front.
B. n.
A four-toed animal (esp. a vertebrate).
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pentadactylous1717
didactylous1802
didactyl1803
pentadactyl?a1808
polydactyl1827
hexadactylous1828
tetradactyl1847
polydactylous1858
sexdigitated1868
sexdigital1875
hexadactylic1880
pentadactylic1880
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > digit > having four digits > four-toed animal
tetradactyl1847
1847 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Tetradactyl, an animal having four toes.
Derivatives
tetradacˈtylity n. the condition of having four digits.
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sexdigitism1775
polydactylism1865
pentadactylism1879
polydactyly1886
tetradactylity1891
pentadactyly1892
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > digit > having four digits
tetradactylity1891
tetradactyly1904
1891 Nature 5 Feb. 329/2 If..a man has a finger amputated, his tetradactylity is a somatogenic property.
tetraˈdactylous adj. = A.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [adjective] > having separate digits > having several digits > having four digits
tetradactylous1828
tetradactyl1835
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Tetradactylous.
1851 G. A. Mantell Petrifactions i. §3. 70 Narrow-toed tridactylous or tetradactylous species [of birds].
1869 P. Gillmore tr. G. L. Figuier Reptiles & Birds v. 421 The feet tetradactylous, and furnished with long and strong claws.
tetraˈdactyly n. = tetradactylity n.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > digit > having four digits
tetradactylity1891
tetradactyly1904
1904 Amer. Naturalist 38 3 From the ancestral canid Cynodictis of the Oligocene and lower Miocene,..to Lycaon in which structural tetradactyly prevails.
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adj.n.1828