a. Also -yle. [ad. Gr. τριδάκτυλ-ος, f. τρι-, TRI- + δάκτυλος finger, digit.] Having three fingers or toes.
1812. Shaw, Gen. Zool., VIII. 104. Tridactyle Kingfisher.
1822. J. Parkinson, Outl. Oryctol., 321. The feet of this animal were tridactyle.
1877. Le Conte, Elem. Geol., I. (1879), 431. Only three functional toes on the hind foot, which therefore formed a tridactyl track.
1912. Return Brit. Museum, 179. A tridactyl Reptilian foot-print.