forelimb
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of forelimb
Example Sentences
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The researchers compared forelimb length with skull length and identified five dinosaur groups with notably reduced forelimbs.
From Science Daily ● May 20, 2026
The sheer force of their thousand-pound bodies pummels the dirt track's hazardous slings — but only after first funneling through the narrow cabling of their spindly forelimb ligaments.
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2023
Since 2016, he had some discomfort and lameness in his right forelimb, zoo officials said.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2022
Initially, study co-author Becky Barnes, paleontologist and lab manager at the North Dakota Geological Survey, flagged potential bite marks on the specimen’s tail, and Householder found more on the “pinky finger” of the right forelimb.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 14, 2022
This modification of the forelimb in T. ornata has produced a more rigid, stronger manus that is well adapted to the requirements of burrowing and to locomotion over unyielding substrata.
From Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz by Legler, John M.
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