Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having all four feet like hands; quadrumanous as well as quadrupedal: an epithet applied specifically to the opossums and lemurs, referring especially to the hand-like character of hind feet.
  • Pertaining to or having the characteristics of the Pedimana: a term applied to both lemurs and opossums.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Having feet resembling hands, or with the first toe opposable, as the opossums and monkeys.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective zoology Having feet resembling hands, or with the first toe opposable, as in the opossums and monkeys.

Etymologies

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See pedimana.

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