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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a zygodactyl foot in which the third and fourth toes project forward and the first and second toes project backward, as in the trogons.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the digits irregular or peculiar in size, form, or position. Also
heterodactylous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Heterodactylous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology
heterodactylous
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of bird feet) having the first and second toes directed backward the third and fourth forward
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