Definition of Dactylic

1. Adjective. Of or consisting of dactyls. "Dactylic meter"

Category relationships: Metrics, Prosody
Partainyms: Dactyl
Derivative terms: Dactyl

Definition of Dactylic

1. a. Pertaining to, consisting chiefly or wholly of, dactyls; as, dactylic verses.

2. n. A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls; as, these lines are dactylics.

Definition of Dactylic

1. a verse consisting of dactyls [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dactylic

dacryon
dacryops
dacryopyorrhoea
dacryorrhoea
dacryostenosis
dactinomycin
dactyl
dactyl
dactylagra
dactylalgia
dactylar
dactylar
Dactylaria
dactyledema
dactyli
dactylic (current term)
dactylics
dactyliography
dactyliomancy
Dactylis
Dactylis glomerata
dactylitis
dactyli ology
dactylo-
dactylocampsis
dactylocampsodynia
Dactyloctenium
Dactyloctenium aegypticum
dactylodynia
dactylogryposis

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