Meanings
comparative more fingery · superlative most fingery
- 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 TimesSynonyms: fingerlike, digitiform
- climbingRequiring the use of fingers to climb.
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adjectiveResembling fingers in shape.
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fingery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fingery
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