quadrumanous

American  

[kwo-droo-muh-nuhs] / kwɒˈdru mə nəs /

adjective

1. four-handed; having all four feet adapted for use as hands, as monkeys.

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quadrumanous British  

/ kwɒˈdruːmənəs /

adjective

1. (of monkeys and apes) having all four feet specialized for use as hands

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quadrumanous Scientific  

/ kwŏ-dro̅o̅′mə-nəs /

1. Having four feet and using all four feet as hands, as primates other than humans do. The big toes as well as the thumbs of quadrumanous species are opposable.

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Etymology

Origin of quadrumanous

1690–1700; < New Latin quadrumanus, equivalent to Latin quadru- quadru- + -manus, adj. derivative of manus hand ( cf. manual)

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Example Sentences

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quadrumanous

The girls marched past progressively tougher words, from heroine, blossom and dentifrice to operose, miscible and quadrumanous.

From Time Magazine Archive

The common distinction of the apes as "quadrumanous" is altogether wrong morphologically.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel

She belongs to the same zoological species that we do, and is neither trimanous nor quadrumanous.

From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion

But, alas, he never became sufficiently developed or “evolved” from his quadrumanous condition to answer the question in person, as the engines which were his hobby in the end compassed his untimely death!

From Tom Finch's Monkey and How he Dined with the Admiral by Anonymous

In dealing with the suggestion that man differs from the apes in being bimanous, while the apes are quadrumanous, Huxley first explained and discussed what the exact differences between hands and feet are.

From Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work by P. Chalmers (Peter Chalmers) Mitchell

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