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PENTADAC'TYL

, [Gr. five, and finger.]

In botany, a plant called five fingers; a name given to the Ricinus or Palma Christi, from the shape of its leaf.

In ichthyology, the five fingered fish; a name given to a fish common in the East Indian seas, which has five black streaks on each side resembling the prints of five fingers.