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: po-ly-dac-ty-lous. The stress falls on "dac".

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.