"dactylous" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1887, James W. Davis, “The Fossil Fishes of the Chalk of Mount Lebanon, In Syria”, in The Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society, page 476:",
          "text": "The larger ossicles are striated on the surface, the striae being produced along the anterior margin so as to give it a dactylous appearance; the median striation is longest, and extends to the point of the rhomboidally-shaped scale.",
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          "ref": "1941, Biodiversity, Evolution and Biogeography of Plants, page 69:",
          "text": "basal dactylous cell of the sterile branchlets tapering into the conical and strongly acuminate ultimate cell ; basal dactylous cell of the fertile branchlets rounded at the apex;",
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          "ref": "1963, Theodor Mortensen, “Report on the Echinoidea Collected by the United States Fisheries Steamer \"Albatross\" During the Pilippine Expedition, 1907-1910.”, in Papers on Echinoidea, Fishes, and Copepoda, page 21:",
          "text": "The unfortunate fact that there are no dactylous pedicellariae to be found in the specimen under consideration prevents reaching a definite conclusion. The dactylous pedicellariae of A. owstoni and A. coriaceum are very different— 3-valved and of a very primitive type in the former, 5-valved and of a highly finished type in the latter.",
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          "ref": "2005, D.R. Khanna, Biology of Echinodermata, page 79:",
          "text": "The dactylous type reaches its extreme development in species of Araeosoma, where it consists of four or five jaws drawn out into a long narrow shape, topped by a terminal disciform expansion.",
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          "text": "Congenital dactylous malformations in 15 of 401 malformed lambs ( 3.7 percent ) are described .",
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          "ref": "2000, Henry Gee, Shaking the Tree: Readings from Nature in the History of Life, page 277:",
          "text": "Although the Famennian tetrapods have dactylous limbs and more heavily constructed vertebral columns than lobe-finned fishes, they still appear to have been largely aquatic.",
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          "text": "We presume that they made at least brief ventures onto land because of their dactylous limbs and modified limb girdles.",
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