Meaning of Foreleg | Babel Free

Definitions

Either of the two legs towards the front of a four-legged animal such as a horse, or towards the front of a many-legged animal such as most insects, or of a piece of furniture, etc.

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Examples

“For example, the foreleg of the mole is admirably suited for digging underground. A similar modification is found in an entirely different group of the animal kingdom, namely, in the mole cricket[…] In both of these cases the adaptation is the more obvious, because, while the leg of the mole is formed on the same general plan⟳ as that of other vertebrates, and the leg of the mole cricket has the same fundamental structure⟳ as that of other insects, yet in both cases the details of structure⟳ and the general proportions have⟳ been so altered, that the leg is fitted for entirely different purposes from that to which the legs of other vertebrates and of other insects are put⟳.”

“Clover made a sort⟳ of wall round them with her great foreleg[…]”

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