Dactyl /(dăk"tĭl)/

Dac·tyl

Dactyl

n.
  1. A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ⌣ ⌣), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tëgmĭnĕ, E. mer"ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger. (Pros.)
  2. A finger or toe; a digit. (Zool.)