fingery

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English

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Etymology

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From finger +‎ -y.

Adjective

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fingery (comparative more fingery, superlative most fingery)

  1. Resembling fingers in shape.
    • 2007 July 15, Christopher Gray, “What the Future Looked Like Yesterday”, in New York Times[1]:
      They are swimming toward some kind of undersea plant (a sea anemone?), itself surrounded by watermelon-size amoeba shapes with long, fingery edges.
  2. (climbing) Requiring the use of fingers to climb

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