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What does tridactyl mean?

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Adjective
  1. (anatomy) Having three digits on a limb.
  2. (biology) Composed of three movable parts attached to a common base.
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In the foot, the fifth toe was reduced to a single metatarsal, and the first toe was reduced and raised off the ground, leaving a functionally tridactyl foot.
Ornithopod prints are nearly always tridactyl with three stout and broadly spreading toes so that the resulting footprint has the outline of a trefoil.
Podokesaurid theropods are indicated by the presence of numerous small to medium-large sized tridactyl footprints.

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