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‖ hallux Anat.|ˈhæləks|
Pl. halluces |ˈhæl(j)ʊsiːz|.
[mod.L., corrupted from allex (allic-) the great toe (Isidore Gloss.), found once in Plautus in phr. allex. viri a ‘thumb of a man’, a thumbling.]
The innermost of the digits (normally five in number) of the hind foot of an air-breathing vertebrate; the great toe; in birds (when present) usually either the inner or the hind toe. (Corresponding to the pollex or thumb of the fore limb.)
1831R. Knox Cloquet's Anat. 161 The Toes..are distinguished..by their numerical names..The first is also called the Great Toe, (hallux). 1839W. Jardine Brit. Birds II. 53 All [Insessores] have the hallux, or hind toe. 1872Nicholson Palæont. 388 In the Emeu, Cassowary,..the hallux is..absent. 1875tr. Schmidt's Desc. & Darw. 280 Prehensile hind feet with their opposable hallux. |