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Definitions
the thick short innermost digit of the forelimb
Word origin
Borrowed from Latin pollex.
Used in a sentence
“The Simiidae have a man-like appearance. They possess neither tails nor bestial cheek pouches. Their arms are longer than their legs, and they have opposable pollexes and a broad sternum.”
“We came to know the curious roadside species, Hitchhiking Man, Homo pollex of science, with all its many sub-species and forms: […]”
“Among the crabs with abnormal legs, one leg had two pollexes and three dactyls (Fig. 4B), one had a Y-shaped dactyl (Fig. 4C), two had clawlike dactyls (Fig. 4D), and the rest of the abnormal legs had a curved structure.”
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