Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The possession of six fingers or toes on one or both hands or feet; the state of being sexdigitate. It is a particular case of the more comprehensive term polydactylism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of having six fingers on a hand, or six toes on a foot.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of having
six fingers on ahand , or sixtoes on afoot .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
sex- + digit + -ism
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Examples
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The tailed men of Borneo are people afflicted with hereditary malformation analogous to sexdigitism.
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Communication being opened, they emigrated or married strangers and the sexdigitism vanished.
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Communication being opened, they emigrated or married strangers and the sexdigitism vanished.
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The tailed men of Borneo are people afflicted with hereditary malformation analogous to sexdigitism.
palooka commented on the word sexdigitism
Having six fingers or six toes on a hand or foot.
March 17, 2007