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quadrumanous
quadrumanous, a. (kwəˈdruːmənəs) Also 8 quadri-. [f. mod.L. quadruman-us (see Quadrumana) + -ous.] Belonging to the order of Quadrumana; four-handed.[1699 Tyson Orang-Out. 91 Our Pygmie is..tho' a Biped, yet of the Quadrumanus-kind. Ibid. 94 The Orang-Outang..being Quadrumanus, like the Ape-kind.] 1... Oxford English Dictionary
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Quadrumana
A similar term, quadrumanous, is used to describe locomotion involving both using feet and using hands to grasp at branches. wikipedia.org
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quadrimanous
quadrimanous obs. var. quadrumanous. Oxford English Dictionary
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quadrumanal
quadrumanal, a. (kwəˈdruːmənəl) [f. prec. + -al1.] = quadrumanous.1871 Daily News 17 Mar., The habitation of our quadrumanal relatives. 1882 Owen in Longm. Mag. I. 67 The lowest..variety of the Bimanal order differs from the Quadrumanal one in the order of appearance..of the second or ‘permanent’ se... Oxford English Dictionary
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Suspensory behavior
Pronograde tail/quadrumanous-suspend: All five limbs help support the body while the back is horizontal. Orthograde tail/quadrumanous-suspend: All five limbs help support the body while the back is vertical. wikipedia.org
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quadrumane
quadrumane, a. and n. (ˈkwɒdruːmeɪn) Also quadruman (-mæn). [a. F. quadrumane (Buffon): see Quadrumana, and next.] A. adj. = quadrumanous.1835 Kirby Hab. & Inst. Anim. II. xvii. 213 Cuvier's second Order of Mammalians, which he names Quadrumane or four-handed. 1864 Spectator No. 1875. 650 The lemuri... Oxford English Dictionary
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George Britton Halford
Publications On the Time and Manner of Closure of the Auriculo-Ventricular Valves (1861) Not Like Man, Bimanous and Biped, nor yet Quadrumanous, but Cheiropodous wikipedia.org
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quadru-
quadru- (ˈkwɒdruː) a variant of quadri-; in L. restricted to a few formations in which the second element begins with p, as quadrupēs, quadruplex, quadruplus, and their derivatives. Apart from words based on these L. forms, mod. Eng. has quadru- only in quadrumanous etc. (after quadruped), but a few... Oxford English Dictionary
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Sumatran orangutan
It moves through the trees by quadrumanous locomotion and semibrachiation. wikipedia.org
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aye-aye
aye-aye Zool. (ˈaɪˌaɪ) [a. F. aye-aye, a. Malagasy ai{nfacu}ay{nfacu} (also dialectally ahay, haihay) ‘supposed to receive its name from its peculiar cry,’ Richardson Malagasy Dict.] A quadrumanous animal (Cheiromys Madagascariensis), nocturnal, squirrel-like, of the size of a cat, found only in Mad... Oxford English Dictionary
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Mammifera
‖ Mammifera rare. (mæˈmɪfərə) [mod.L. neut. pl. of *mammifer adj., f. L. mamma (see mamma2) + -fer bearing. (Substituted by French naturalists a 1800 for Linnæus' mammalia).] = Mammalia.1827 R. Jameson tr. Cuvier's Theory Earth (ed. 5) 294 Among all these mammifera..there has not been a single quadr... Oxford English Dictionary
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quadri-
▪ I. quadri- (ˈkwɒdrɪ) a first element used in combs. with the sense ‘having, consisting of, connected with, etc. four (things specified)’. The L. quadri- was so employed in a few words during the classical period, as in the ns. quadriduum, quadriennium, quadrirēmis, quadrivium, the adjs. quadrifidu... Oxford English Dictionary
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Barbary
Barbary (ˈbɑːbərɪ) Forms: 4 barberie, 5 barbre, barbarie, -ye, 6 barbery, 5– barbary. [I. a. OF. barbarie, ad. L. barbaria, barbariēs, ‘land of barbarians, barbarism,’ f. barbar-us barbarous. In II. ult f. Arab. Barbar, Berber, applied by the Arab geographers from ancient times to the natives of N. ... Oxford English Dictionary
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four-handed
four-handed, a. 1. Having four feet which resemble the hands of a man; quadrumanous.1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) IV. 249 Animals of the monkey kind..From this general description of four-handed animals, we perceive what [etc.]. 1833 Tennyson Poems 3 When, in the darkness over me, The fourhanded mo... Oxford English Dictionary
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hand
▪ I. hand, n. (hænd) Forms: α. 1–5 hond, 4 hoond(e, 4–6 honde. β. 1– hand, 4 haunde, 4–7 hande. pl. α. 1 honda, 2–4 honde, 4 hond; 1 handa, 2–4 hande. β. 2–5 honden, (2 -an, 5 -on). γ. 4 heind, 4–5 hend, hende. δ. 3–6 hondes. 4–5 -is, 5 -us, -s; 4–7 handes, 5 -us, 5–6 -is, -ys, 4– hands. [Com. Teut.... Oxford English Dictionary
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