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PENTADACTYLON

Volume 17 · 50 words · 1810 Edition

Five Fingers, in Botany, a name given by some authors to the ricinus or palma Christi, from the figure of its leaf.

Pentadactylos viscidus, the five-fingered fish, the trivial name of a fish common in all the seas of the East Indies, and called by the Dutch there viscid viscidus.