Look up dactyl in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dactyl may refer to: Dactyl (mythology), a legendary being Dactyl (poetry), a metrical unit of verse...

Dactylic hexameter (also known as heroic hexameter and the meter of epic) is a form of meter or rhythmic scheme frequently used in Ancient Greek and Latin...

A dactyl (/ˈdæktɪl/; Greek: δάκτυλος, dáktylos, “finger”) is a foot in poetic meter. In quantitative verse, often used in Greek or Latin, a dactyl is a...

In Greek mythology, the Dactyls or Daktyloi (/ˈdæktɪlz/; from Ancient Greek: Δάκτυλοι Dáktuloi "fingers") were the archaic mythical race of male beings...

Dactyl (/ˈdæktɪl/ DAK-til; formally (243) Ida I Dactyl) is a tiny asteroid moon (1 mile, or 1.6 km, in diameter) that orbits asteroid 243 Ida. It was imaged...

The double dactyl is a verse form invented by Anthony Hecht and Paul Pascal in 1951. Like the limerick, the double dactyl has a fixed structure, is usually...

ages. Ida's moon Dactyl was discovered by mission member Ann Harch in images returned from Galileo. It was named after the Dactyls, creatures which inhabited...

is a list of named geological features on asteroid 243 Ida and its moon, Dactyl. Idaean regiones (geologically distinct areas) are named after the discoverer...

inflammation of an entire digit (a finger or toe), and can be painful. The word dactyl comes from the Greek word daktylos 'finger'. As a medical term, it refers...

Dactyl Foundation is a 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit arts organization in New York City founded by New York-based artist Neil Grayson and novelist/philosopher...