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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
dermatoglyphic is a noun meaning "the lines that form patterns on the skin (especially on the fingertips and the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet)". It carries one recorded sense.
the lines that form patterns on the skin (especially on the fingertips and the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dermatoglyphic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.