PENTADAC'TYL, n. [Gr. five, and finger.]
1. In botany, a plant called five fingers; a name given to the Ricinus or Palma Christi, from the shape of its leaf.
2. In ichthyology, the five fingered fish; a name given to a fish common in the East Indian seas, which has five black streaks on each side resembling the prints of five fingers.
