dactyl
n. விரல், கால் விரல், (யாப்) முதலில் நீளசைகொண்ட ழூவசைச் சீர்.
Dac"tyl, n. Etym: [L. dactylus, Gr. Digit.] 1. (Pros.) Defn: A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tëgmînê, E. mer"ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger. [Written also dactyle.] 2. (Zoöl.) (a) A finger or toe; a digit. (b) The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean.