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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
dermatoglyphics is a noun meaning "the study of the whorls and loops and arches in the fingertips and on the palms of the hand and the soles of the feet". It carries one recorded sense.
the study of the whorls and loops and arches in the fingertips and on the palms of the hand and the soles of the feet
“some criminologists specialize in dermatoglyphics”
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 dermatoglyphics come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.