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Fingerlike process
Answer for the clue "Fingerlike process ", 10 letters:
digitation
Word definitions for digitation in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Digitation \Dig`i*ta"tion\, n. [Cf. F. digitation.] A division into fingers or fingerlike processes; also, a fingerlike process.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) touching; manipulation with the fingers. 2 (context zoology botany English) Any of various finger-like process found in plant and animal tissues.
Usage examples of digitation.
At length, I resorted to the only present remedy, that of vain attempts at digitation, where the smallness of the theatre did not yet afford room enough for action, and where the pain my fingers gave me, in striving for admission, tho' they procured me a slight satisfaction for the present, started an apprehension, which I could not be easy till I had communicated to Phoebe, and received her explanations upon it.