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amanous

amanous adjective: lacking hands or manus.

Adjective

amanous (not comparable)

  1. Lacking hands or manus.
    • 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...1894 March, J. Mark Baldwin, “The Origin of Right-handedness”, in Popular Science, volume 44, number 44, page 614
    • 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.2012, William Penn, Love in the Time of Flowers, →ISBN, page 340

Questions about amanous

What does amanous mean?
Amanous means lacking hands or manus.
What part of speech is amanous?
Amanous is an adjective.

Words near amanous in the dictionary

  1. Amann
  2. Amanns
  3. Amano
  4. amanori
  5. Amanos
  6. amanous
  7. amanozine
  8. amanse
  9. amant
  10. Amantacop
  11. amantadine

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