dactylose

English

Etymology

dactyl- +‎ -ose

Adjective

dactylose (comparative more dactylose, superlative most dactylose)

1. (biology) Finger-like.
   • 1849, Lovell Augustus Reeve, Conchologia Iconica:

     Distinguished by its elongated dactylose form, and by the bold longitudinally striped pattern of the epidermis.

   • 1872, George James Allman, A Monograph of the Gymnoblastic Or Tubularian Hydroids, page 172:

     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.

   • 1932, Smithosonian Institution, “Copepods of the Woods Hole Region”, in Bulletin, volume 158, page 526:

     In front of them on the ventral surface is a pair of short dactylose processes, bluntly rounded at their tips; the abdomen is lacking.