Meaning of quadrumanous | Babel Free

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Having four feet whose first digits are opposable; applies to all non-human primates.

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“I've seen one monkey force⟳ open⟳ the jaws of his brother, resolutely introduce⟳ his fingers, pluck from the sanctuary of his cheek the filbert he had just stowed there for his private nutrition and delight, and crunch and eat⟳ it with a stern ecstasy of selfishness, himself; and I fancy that the feelings of the quadrumanous victim, his jaws aching, his pouch outraged, and his bon-bouche in the miscreant's mouth, a little resembles those of the physician who has suffered so hideous a mortification as that of Toole.”

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