"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."
How to pronounce dactyl in English
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"A finger or toe; a digit."
"The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean."