thumb-like

These extra toes formed a thumb-like appendage on each paw.

Waldo Jaquith - Polydactyl cat needs a home. 2008

I'd imagine what Scott meant was non-primates -- then at worst he'd only be partially wrong -- raccoons, otters and other creatures with very thumb-like appendages.

- Boing Boing 2006

And as to the foot, the great toe of the Marmoset is still more insignificant in proportion than that of the Orang — while in the Lemurs it is very large, and as completely thumb-like and opposable as in the Gorilla — but in these animals the second toe is often irregularly modified, and in some species the two principal bones of the tarsus, the ‘astragalus’ and the

Essays 2007

The next day I ascended La Pouce, a mountain so called from a thumb-like projection, which rises close behind the town to a height of 2,600 feet.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

The next day I ascended La Pouce, a mountain so called from a thumb-like projection, which rises close behind the town to a height of 2,600 feet.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

The next day I ascended La Pouce, a mountain so called from a thumb-like projection, which rises close behind the town to a height of 2,600 feet.

Chapter XXI 1909

When the snow lay in a deep cake, showing only the two thumb-like marks at long intervals made by the rabbit in its leaping flight, and when the air was so tense and cold you could hear the bark of a dog far off,

Old Caravan Days Mary Hartwell Catherwood 1874

I allude to the incurved form of the legs, and the lateral extension of the great toe, whereby it approaches the thumb-like character of this organ in the

Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions George John Romanes 1871

"Finger-like -- thumb-like," he muttered, "just as if it was so many huge hands resting one upon the other."

Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop George Manville Fenn 1870

Not Leather's, made by broad shoe-soles, but newly impressed marks with wide-spreading toes, the big toe in each case being rather thumb-like in its separation from the others.

First in the Field A Story of New South Wales George Manville Fenn 1870