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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

fingery en · ADJ

Etymology

From finger + -y.

Meanings

  1. Resembling fingers in shape.
    • They are swimming toward some kind of undersea plant (a sea anemone?), itself surrounded by watermelon-size amoeba shapes with long, fingery edges. 2007 July 15, Christopher Gray, “What the Future Looked Like Yesterday”, in New York Times:
  2. Requiring the use of fingers to climb.

Forms

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more fingery Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most fingery Degree=Sup lexicographic

Coordinates

technical

Synonyms

digitiform · fingerlike