dactyl

How To Use dactyl In A Sentence

• Experts agree that hippos belong to the mammalian order Artiodactyla, a group of even-toed, hoofed creatures whose extant representatives include camels, pigs and ruminants such as cows.
• The Jet Ranger arced upwards, a big prehistoric pterodactyl lurching blindly in its death throes.
• I seldom say a harsh word to any one, but I was not master of myself then, and I spoke right out and called him an anisodactylous plesiosaurian conchyliaceous Ornithorhyneus, and rotten to the heart with holophotal subterranean extemporaneousness. Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells.
• Phylogenetic relationships of the five extant rhinoceros species (Rhinocerotidae, Perissodactyla) based on mitochondrial cytochrome b and 12S rRNA genes. Archive 2006-09-01
• Of these, five are anoles (Anolis oculatus, A. roquet, A. luciae, A. trinitatis, A. griseus), three are eleuths (Eleutherodactylus shrevei, E. martinicensis, E. euphronides), two are snakes (Typhlops tasymicris) (Bothrops carribaeus) and one is a gecko (Sphaerodactylus microlepis). Windward Islands moist forests
• Their decline accelerated during the Oligocene and coincided with the rise of another group of large herbivorous and cursorial mammals, the artiodactyls.
• With their proportionally short wings, long legs with robust femora, and large, robust feet (Bennett 2001), azhdarchids were likely to have been even better suited for terrestrial foraging than most other pterodactyloids. Archive 2006-04-01
• Common metrical patterns in both poetry and music are iambic, trochaic, dactylic, amphibrachic, anapaestic, spondaic, and tribrachic.
• Members of the Monodactylidae family are marine fish that spend a portion of their lives in fresh or brackish water.
• The first thing I saw on the Marylebone platform was the crude picture in green chalk of a stolon of _Cynodon dactylon_. Greener Than You Think