fourhandedness
See also: four-handedness
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom fourhanded + -ness.
Noun
editfourhandedness (uncountable)
- The state or quality of being fourhanded; having or using four hands.
- 1964, Jack Hale Prost, Readings on human evolution, page 15:
- A primary and persistently ground-living form does not develop fourhandedness. The present forelimb of the hominids is incomprehensible without prior arboreal life.