Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, fingerlike in form or arrangement. Also
dactylose .
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Examples
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Spores of _Bilimbia trachona_ to illustrate the several-celled, hyaline, fusiform or dactyloid type.
Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker 1894
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Thallus usually composed of minute granules, these often run together to form a leprose or verrucose and rarely areolate or even subsquamulose crust, rarely disappearing; apothecia minute or small, usually adnate, with a weak and often covered exciple; hypothecium pale to dark brown; hymenium pale or tinged brown; spores hyaline, usually fusiform or dactyloid, varying from 4 - to 9-celled.
Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker 1894
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Spores ellipsoid, fusiform, or dactyloid _Bilimbia_, p. Spores acicular _Bacidia_, p. Spores brown, or becoming brown.
Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker 1894
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