amanous
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Adjective[edit]
amanous (not comparable)
- Lacking hands or manus.
- 1894 March, J. Mark Baldwin, “The Origin of Right-handedness”, in Popular Science, volume 44, number 44, page 614:
- It is extremely improbable that dextrality should have arisen among the quadrupeds (or amanous bipeds), for experience was lacking of unilateral stimulation, and a spontaneous variation of this kind would have produced such inconvenience of locomotion and ultimately such asymmetry of form that it would have been weeded out.
- 2012, William Penn, Love in the Time of Flowers, →ISBN, page 340:
- Also, he was holding in his hand (oh, that I had crayoned him amanous, unable to hold onto anything, hindsight within me bayed wistfully) a thin strip of spattania ribbon that was as vibrantly yellow as the gunebo lily.