Sentence examples for claw dactyl from inspiring English sources
M Severns. 1 claw dactyl.
P Fiene, M Severns. 2 claws, 1 dactyl, 1 fixed finger.
The form of combat varies in detail across species, but usually includes a sequence of ritualized behaviors, culminating in males interlocking and forcefully gripping their major claws, so that tubercles on the dactyl or polex of the claws apply force to the manus of the other crab [ 8, 10].
For high temperatures, we touched crayfish with the lightest pressure possible (i.e., touching rather than pressing the tip against the claw) in the nook of the claw (i.e., where the dactyl meets the propus in the interior gripping surface of a chela) with a soldering iron either at ∼20°C (room temperature control) or heated to ∼54°C.
To be the most effective weapon, the claw should be relatively heavy, with a large closing muscle, a thick cuticle, and a relatively short dactyl and polex to maximize mechanical advantage.
Researchers now report what makes these appendages, called dactyl clubs, so powerful.
The double dactyl, with its fascinating rule that the second part should contain a line consisting of one double-dactyl word, is another form that forbids a straight face: Higgledy piggledy Vladimir Nabokov - Wait! Hasn't somebody Made a mistake?
