Meanings
- not comparableLacking hands or manus.
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 3401 more example
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.
1894 March, J. Mark Baldwin, “The Origin of Right-handedness”, in Popular Science, volume 44, number 44, page 614
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