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pollex

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun pollex has 1 sense

pollex(n = noun.body) thumb - the thick short innermost digit of the forelimb; Array

has parts: musculus abductor pollicis, thumbnail

is a kind of finger

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CIDE DICTIONARY

pollex, n. [the thumb.].

The first, or preaxial, digit of the fore limb, corresponding to the hallux in the hind limb; the thumb. In birds, the pollex is the joint which bears the bastard wing. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

pollex, n. (pl. pollices) the innermost digit of a forelimb, usu. the thumb in primates.

Etymology

L, = thumb or big toe

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