Meanings
- not comparableanatomyHaving an odd number of fingers or toes.
The horse, tapir, and rhinoceros are imparidigitate.
1 more example
Thus the Hog-group paridigitatestands below the Tapir - group (imparidigitate)
1864, James Dwight Dana, The Classification of Animals Based on the Principle of Cephalization
Origin
- Latinimpar“unequal”
- Englishimparidigitate
From Latin impar (“unequal”) + digitus (“finger”).
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