polydactylous

1. 1.

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

   Synonymspolydactyl

   biology

Questions about polydactylous

What does polydactylous mean?

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

How many syllables are in polydactylous?

polydactylous has 5 syllables and divides as po-ly-dac-ty-lous under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for polydactylous?

Close synonyms include polydactyl. 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 polydactylous a common word?

polydactylous 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.