fingery

English

Etymology

finger +‎ -y

Adjective

fingery (comparative more fingery, superlative most fingery)

1. Resembling fingers in shape.
   • 2007 July 15, Christopher Gray, “What the Future Looked Like Yesterday”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     They are swimming toward some kind of undersea plant (a sea anemone?), itself surrounded by watermelon-size amoeba shapes with long, fingery edges.

2. (climbing) Requiring the use of fingers to climb

Anagrams

• fringe-y, fringey, negrify