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Meaning of amanous | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1

Definitions

Lacking hands or manus.

not-comparable

Examples

“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.”
“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.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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