fourhandedness
See also: four-handedness
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From fourhanded + -ness.
Noun
[edit]fourhandedness (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.