Amanous

Quick meaning: Amanous is an adjective meaning Lacking hands or manus.

Meaning

Lacking hands or manus.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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