Meaning of amanous | Babel Free

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.”

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