syndactylous

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek

Adjective

syndactylous (not comparable)

1. (zoology) Having the toes firmly united together for some distance, and without an intermediate web.

   Kingfishers are syndactylous.

Translations

having toes united for some distance

• Finnish: syndaktylinen, yhdysvarpainen

See also

• gressorial

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for syndactylous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)