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pentadactyl [¦pen·tə¦dakt·əl]
(vertebrate zoology) Having five digits on the hand or foot. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | Another thing that he'll need to explain is the Pentadactyl limb, the ancestral terrestrial vertebrates' limb plan, which is found in all classes of tetrapods (vertebrates with four feet, legs, or leg-like appendages) from mammals to amphibians. Note that PENTADACTYL below and its 12-letter variant spelling above result from shiftgramming two words with the same shift; however, these latter two words form a well-mixed transdeletion, so the 11-letter example is not a trivial variant of the 12-letter example. Paleontologists have traditionally held that all land vertebrates followed a five-digit or pentadactyl pattern. |
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