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

Wallace has sought to draw a refined distinction between this vestigial coating and the useful coating of quadrumanous animals, in the absence of the former from the human back.

From Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions by George John Romanes

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

Moreover, man is not truly quadrumanous; for he has not, like the monkeys, an almost equal facility in using the fingers of his feet, and of seizing objects with them.

From Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard

But the apes can grasp with the hind-foot as well as the fore, and so were regarded as quadrumanous.

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

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