单词 | pedimanous |
释义 | † pedimanousadj. Zoology. Obsolete. Designating or relating to mammals whose feet (esp. hind feet) resemble hands in having an opposable digit. Cf. pedimane n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > [adjective] quadrumanous1704 quadrumane1784 quadrimanous1790 pedimanous1836 quadrumanal1857 primatial1864 primatal1870 cheiropodous1889 primatic1890 the world > animals > mammals > group Implacenta > subclass Marsupialia (marsupials) > [adjective] > having feet like hands pedimanous1836 1836 Proc. Zool. Soc. London 4 27 Another Pedimanous animal. 1841 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. III. 290/2 None of the analogous carnivorous, pedimanous, or rodent Placentals present this condition of the hind leg. 1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Pedimanus, applied by Vicq d'Azyr and Blainville to a Family (Pedimani..) of the Mammifera,..of which the feet, having the thumb opposible, are thus converted into a kind of hand: pedimanous. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1836 |
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