intransitive verb

• (of two or more things) interlock like the fingers of two clasped hands.

  ‘the scales at the shell margins of opposing valves frequently interdigitate’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The finger domains can interdigitate into the major groove of the DNA helix.’
  • ‘The dermal joint between the two cranial regions may be straight and simple, or complex and interdigitating.’
  • ‘It could be argued that the chains themselves were partially interdigitating.’
  • ‘They are supposed to be in two rows, which we call biseriate; however, it often is difficult to see a line of separation because of the way they interdigitate.’
  • ‘In the more solid regions, spindle cells are in loose fascicles, which may interdigitate.’