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		tridactyl /trʌɪˈdaktɪl  /adjective Zoology(Of a vertebrate limb) having three toes or fingers.The foot is functionally tridactyl, with digits II - IV bound together and largely functioning as a single unit....- In the foot, the fifth toe was reduced to a single metatarsal, and the first toe was reduced and raised off the ground, leaving a functionally tridactyl foot.
 - Ornithopod prints are nearly always tridactyl with three stout and broadly spreading toes so that the resulting footprint has the outline of a trefoil.
 
   Derivatives tridactyly noun ...- For starters, quail have three toes in a tridactyly arrangement.
 - The revised generic diagnosis includes derived features of Archaeohippus relative to Miohippus and Anchitherium such as crochets on upper cheek teeth and reduced tridactyly, which link it with Parahippus, merychippine-grade equids, hipparionines, and equines.
 - Using the JSSH classification, these 305 cases were classified into the short webbed-finger type, didactyly type, adactyly type, and tridactyly type.
 
 Origin Early 19th century: from tri- 'three' + Greek daktulos 'finger'.  |