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pollex

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6 lettersPart of speech nounSorted ellopxStarts with PEnds with X0 clues
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Definitions

  1. 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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