Dactyl is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DACTYL in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a metrical foot of one short syllable followed by two long syllables
• a metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables or (in Greek and Latin) one long syllable followed by two short syllables.
• metrical foot of three syllables, one long followed by two short
• A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tegm/n/, E. mer\\b6ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger.
• A finger or toe; a digit.
• The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean.
• a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables
• a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding body part in other vertebrates
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a type of metrical foot

Words related to DACTYL

dactylic16 dactyls13

How to use DACTYL in a sentence

• The accented syllable of the dactyl is longest, and the second unaccented syllable, the last in the group, is shortest.

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