单词 | hallux |
释义 | halluxn. Anatomy. The innermost of the digits (normally five in number) of the hind foot of an air-breathing vertebrate; the great toe; in birds (when present) usually either the inner or the hind toe. (Corresponding to the pollex or thumb of the fore limb.) ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > digit > toe > [noun] > big toe thumble-toec1440 thumb?a1475 big toe1699 tom toe1823 hallux1831 1831 R. Knox tr. H. Cloquet Syst. Human Anat. (ed. 2) 161 The Toes..are distinguished..by their numerical names..The first is also called the Great Toe, (hallux). 1839 W. Jardine Nat. Hist. Birds Great Brit. & Ireland (Naturalist's Libr.: Ornithol. II) II. 53 All [Insessores] have the hallux, or hind toe. 1872 H. A. Nicholson Man. Palæontol. 388 In the Emeu, Cassowary,..the hallux is..absent. 1875 tr. E. O. Schmidt Doctr. Descent & Darwinism 280 Prehensile hind feet with their opposable hallux. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1831 |
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