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  • Dactyl (mythology)
    Dactyl (mythology)

    In Greek mythology, the Dactyls were the archaic race of small phallus male beings associated with the Mother Goddess, whether as Cybele or Rhea ....
    , a creature in Greek mythology
    Greek mythology

    Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
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  • Pterodactyl, a flying pterosaur
    Pterosaur

    Pterosaurs were flying reptiles of the clade or Order Pterosauria. They existed from the late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous Period . Pterosaurs are the earliest vertebrates known to have evolved powered flight....
     from the Triassic to Cretaceous Period
  • Dactyl (poetry)
    Dactyl (poetry)

    A dactyl is a type of Meter . In quantitative verse, such as Greek language or Latin, a dactyl is a long syllable followed by two short syllables, as determined by syllable weight....
    , a metrical foot consisting of one long syllable and two short as in "Catherine." (Derived from the Greek word for finger, as a finger has one long segment and two shorter ones.)
  • Dactyl (moon), the small natural satellite
    Natural satellite

    A natural satellite or moon is a celestial body that orbits a planet or smaller body, which is called the primary. Technically, the term natural satellite could refer to a planet orbiting a star, or a dwarf galaxy orbiting a major galaxy, but it is normally synonymous with moon and used to identify non-artificial satellites...
     orbiting the asteroid
    Asteroid

    Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, smaller than planets but larger than meteoroids....
     Ida
    243 Ida

    243 Ida is a member of the Koronis family of Asteroid belt. It was discovered on 29 September 1884 by Johann Palisa and named after a nymph from Greek mythology....
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  • Finger
    Finger

    A finger is a type of digit , an organ of manipulation and sensation found in the hands of humans and other primates.Normally humans have five digits, termed phalanges, on each hand ....
    , in medical terminology, from the Greek d??t????.
  • The movable part of crustacean
    Crustacean

    Crustaceans are a large group of arthropods, comprising almost 52,000 described species , and are usually treated as a subphylum . They include various familiar animals, such as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles....
     claws/pincers.