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pentadactyl

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pentadactyl
[pen′tədak′til]
Etymology: Gk, pente, five, daktylos, fingers or toes
having five fingers per hand and five toes per foot.
pentadactyl
having five digits.
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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.
LETTERS IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
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.
Shiftgrams: spangled wordplay by Sabey, Richard / Word Ways
Paleontologists have traditionally held that all land vertebrates followed a five-digit or pentadactyl pattern.
When feet had seven toes by Science News
 
 
 
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