telemetacarpal

From tele- +‎ metacarpal. First attested in 1878.^[1]

• enPR: tĕl′ĭ-mĕt′ə-kär′pəl

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌtɛl.ɪˌmɛt.əˈkɑː.pəl/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌtɛl.ɪˌmɛt.əˈkɑɹ.pəl/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌtel.ɪˌmet.əˈkɐː.pəl/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌtel.əˌmet.əˈkɐː.pəl/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˌtɛl.ɪˌmɛt.əˈkaɹ.pəl/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˌʈɛl.ɪˌmɛʈ.aˈkaːʳ.pal/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)pəl
• Hyphenation: tel‧e‧met‧a‧car‧pal

telemetacarpal (not comparable)

1. (zoology, of deer) Possessing vestiges only on the terminal parts of the first and fifth metacarpals.

   Coordinate term: plesiometacarpal

• “telemetacarpal, adj.”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “[Supplement telemetacarpal, adj.]”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes V (Simular–Z), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, column 2.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “telemetacarpal, adj.”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 1326, column 2.