Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of fourhandedness.
...there was a cake to cut in ceremonial four-handedness and solemnly take round to each and every guest.
1984, Roger Milliss, Serpent's Tooth: An Autobiographical Novel, page 3481 more example
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
2002, Charles De Paolo, Human Prehistory in Fiction, →ISBN, page 22
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