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four-handedness

four-handedness is the alternative form of fourhandedness.

Meaning of fourhandedness

Noun

fourhandedness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being fourhanded; having or using four hands.
    • A primary and persistently ground-living form does not develop fourhandedness. The present forelimb of the hominids is incomprehensible without prior arboreal life.1964, Jack Hale Prost, Readings on human evolution, page 15

Questions about four-handedness

What is four-handedness the alternative form of?
Four-handedness is the alternative form of fourhandedness.

Words near four-handedness in the dictionary

  1. Four-H Club
  2. Four-H Clubs
  3. four-half
  4. four-handed
  5. four-handedly
  6. four-handedness
  7. four-hankie
  8. four-hundredth
  9. four-in-hand
  10. four-in-hands
  11. four-leaf

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