four-handedness
See also: fourhandedness
English
editNoun
edit- Alternative form of fourhandedness
- 2002, Charles De Paolo, Human Prehistory in Fiction, →ISBN, page 22:
- Zira ascribes this evolutionary blossoming to the ape's four-handedness: the opposability of four sets of thumbs and toes helped them to brachiate and to perceive spatial depth, in turn, giving them great dexterity
- 1984, Roger Milliss, Serpent's Tooth: An Autobiographical Novel, page 348:
- ...there was a cake to cut in ceremonial four-handedness and solemnly take round to each and every guest.