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-dactyl

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• -dactylous

  a combining form meaning “fingered, possessing fingers,” or “toed, possessing toes,” used to form compound words in which the initial element specifies the type or number of fingers or toes: tridactylous.

• -dactyly

  a combination of -dactyl and -y3 , used to form nouns to stems in -dactyl: hyperdactyly.

• -decker

  adjective (in combination) having a certain specified number of levels or layers a double-decker bus

• -dendron

  variant of dendro- as final element of a compound word: rhododendron.

• -derma

  a combining form of derma1 , used especially in the names of disorders of the skin: scleroderma; xeroderma. -derma suff. skin; skin disease: scleroderma.

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