Poetry, a set of verses so disposed, as that there are always five acrostics of the same name, in five divisions of each verse. See Acrostic.

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

Pentadactylosfiscis, 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 vis vinger visch.