polydactyl

1. 1.

   of or relating to a person (or other vertebrate) having more than the normal number of digits

   Synonymspolydactylous

   biology

Questions about polydactyl

What does polydactyl mean?

polydactyl means "of or relating to a person (or other vertebrate) having more than the normal number of digits".

How many syllables are in polydactyl?

polydactyl has 4 syllables: po-ly-dac-tyl. The stress falls on "ly".

What is another word for polydactyl?

Close synonyms include polydactylous. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is polydactyl a common word?

polydactyl is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.