"dactylose" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1849, Lovell Augustus Reeve, Conchologia Iconica",
          "text": "Distinguished by its elongated dactylose form, and by the bold longitudinally striped pattern of the epidermis.",
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          "ref": "1872, George James Allman, A Monograph of the Gymnoblastic Or Tubularian Hydroids, page 172",
          "text": "It consists of a little calcareous cylindrical column, about one tenth of an inch in height, attached by a dactylose base, and surmounted by an expansion in the form of a reversed cone, the margin of whose wide end is extended into several radiating arms, which, like the rest of the fossil, are entirely calcareous.",
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          "ref": "1932, Smithosonian Institution, “Copepods of the Woods Hole Region”, in Bulletin, volume 158, page 526",
          "text": "In front of them on the ventral surface is a pair of short dactylose processes, bluntly rounded at their tips; the abdomen is lacking.",
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        "Finger-like."
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        "(biology) Finger-like."
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        "biology",
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  "word": "dactylose"
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