Dactyl
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Dactyl may refer to:
- Dactyl (mythology)Dactyl (mythology)In Greek mythology, the Dactyls were the archaic mythical race of small phallic male beings associated with the Great Mother, whether as Cybele or Rhea. Their numbers vary, but often they were ten spirit-men so like the three Curetes, the Cabiri or the Korybantes that they were often interchangeable...
, a creature in Greek mythology - Dactyl (poetry)Dactyl (poetry)A dactyl is a foot in meter in poetry. In quantitative verse, such as Greek or Latin, a dactyl is a long syllable followed by two short syllables, as determined by syllable weight...
, a metrical foot consisting of one long syllable and two short - Dactyl (moon), the small natural satellite orbiting the asteroid Ida
- FingerFingerA finger is a limb of the human body and a type of digit, an organ of manipulation and sensation found in the hands of humans and other primates....
, in medical terminology, from the Greek δάκτυλος - The movable part of crustaceanCrustaceanCrustaceans form a very large group of arthropods, usually treated as a subphylum, which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles. The 50,000 described species range in size from Stygotantulus stocki at , to the Japanese spider crab with a leg span...
claws/pincers - Dactyl FoundationDactyl FoundationDactyl Foundation is a 501 not-for-profit arts organization in New York City founded by Neil Grayson and Tori Alexander.-History:Founded in 1996 in the "evening of the postmodern day," Dactyl Foundation supports an aesthetic that is informed by science, history, and philosophy...
, an arts organization in New York City, founded by Neil Grayson and Tori Alexander in 1996
See also
- Dactylic metre (disambiguation)
- Pterodactyl, a flying pterosaurPterosaurPterosaurs were flying reptiles of the clade or order Pterosauria. They existed from the late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous Period . Pterosaurs are the earliest vertebrates known to have evolved powered flight...
from the Triassic to Cretaceous Period