What (who) is dactyl$18719$ - definition
MUSICAL ARTIST
Terry Dactyl and The Dinosaurs; Terry dactyl and the dinosaurs; Terry Dactyl
dactyl
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Dactyli; Dactylic; Dactyls; Dactyl (disambiguation)
['dakt?l]
¦ noun Prosody a metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables or (in Greek and Latin) one long syllable followed by two short syllables.
Origin
ME: via L. from Gk daktulos, lit. 'finger' (the three bones of the finger corresp. to the three syllables).
Dactyl (poetry)
METRICAL FOOT
Dactyl (foot); Dactycl (poetry)
A dactyl (; , dáktylos, “finger”) is a foot in poetic meter. In quantitative verse, often used in Greek or Latin, a dactyl is a long syllable followed by two short syllables, as determined by syllable weight.
Dactyl
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Dactyli; Dactylic; Dactyls; Dactyl (disambiguation)
·noun A finger or toe; a digit.
II. Dactyl ·noun The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean.
III. Dactyl ·noun A poetical foot of three sylables (-- Dactyl Dactyl), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, ·Lat. tegm(n/), ·Eng. merciful;
- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger.
Wikipedia
Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs
Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs were an English novelty band that issued a few recordings in the early 1970s. The band was an alias adopted by Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts but signed to a different record label.
Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs was created to promote the hit single "Seaside Shuffle". The name was not a reference to any particular band member, but was a pun on the name of the Jurassic flying reptile pterodactyl. Notable band members were Jona Lewie (composer/vocals/accordion) and Keef Trouble (percussion).
