chiridian

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chiridian (not comparable)

  1. (zoology, rare) Of a tetrapod vertebrate limb, having well-defined joints and digits.
    • 2012, Sebastien Steyer, Earth Before the Dinosaurs, page 1:
      They are all tetrapods–that is to say, vertebrates that possess (or their ancestors possessed) chiridian limbs (limbs with digits; fig. 1.1).