The short thick inner digit of the human hand, opposable to the fingers, and distinguished from them by having only two phalanges; hence, gen., the…
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| 释义 | the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > digit > finger > [noun] > thumb (12) thumba700 The short thick inner digit of the human hand, opposable to the fingers, and distinguished from them by having only two phalanges; hence, gen., the… strongc1300 The thumb. Obsolete. vice-hand1644 (see quot.; in modern use = vice-man n.). pollex1702 Zoology and Anatomy. The first or innermost digit of the forefoot of a tetrapod vertebrate; (in humans and other primates) the thumb. thumby1811 A little thumb; a kind of pet-name for the thumb. thumb-finger1855 the thumb. Subcategories:— parts of (6) |
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