opposable

How To Use opposable In A Sentence

• On the forefeet, digits 1 and 2 are opposable to 3-5.
• The evolution of the hand with an opposable thumb is an early "inbuilt" tool, in combination with erect posture. Archive 2006-07-01
• It is clear, however, that a right which is not opposable by the possessor of the right against the person from whom the right is due is not a right in the full legal sense.
• Many animals, primates and others, also have some kind of opposable thumb or toe. Clipmarks | Live Clips
• the thumb is opposable to the forefinger
• But common experience proves that, in impressionable persons, the activity of nerves and imagination stimulated by works of art has the possessive and unopposable force of a dream, and controls the physical organism, sometimes with quite inaesthetic consequences. Unprintable
• Nocturnal and arboreal, they clamber up trees and hang from limbs thanks to long prehensile tails and opposable inside toes (like thumbs) on their hind feet.
• That's what they used to call the opposable thumb. The Fulcrum of Civilization
• Nocturnal and arboreal, they clamber up trees and hang from limbs thanks to long prehensile tails and opposable inside toes (like thumbs) on their hind feet.
• Their hands had only three digits: two fingers and an opposable thumb.