英:['pɒleks]
美:['pɒleks]
英:['pɒleks]
美:['pɒleks]
复数:pollices
〔复pollices 〔NA〕〕拇指,拇:手的第一指
New Latin pollic-, pollex, from Latin, thumb, big toe
The first known use of pollex was in 1702
pollexnoun
the first digit of the forelimb : thumb
1 Besides, the thread rope is respectively curled around the pollex and the middle finger and can prevent the cover body from falling off.
且该线绳分别卷绕于姆指及中指上,可防止套体脱落。
2 A true opposed pollex mostly appears in mammals like primates.
3 Another reason we know the thumbs-up was the kill signal was a gesture known as the infestus pollex or hostile thumb, which is mentioned in texts but, again, isn't pictured.
4 All have dark brown nuptial tuberosities on the pollex.
5 A pollex is wanting, as in the cassowary, emeu and apteryx, while it is impossible to say whether remiges are represented or not.
6 The pollex and the third finger are as a rule reduced to one phalanx each, while the index still has two.
7 Thus, we have a nail; pollex, pouce, pulgada, Swedish tum, for an inch; which word has been misapplied by our Saxon predecessors, and corrupted from the Latin uncia, which related only to weight.
8 The Latin term for the gesture of approval, Corbeill explains, is pollices premere, which means "press your thumbs" and has been described by Pliny the Elder as a common gesture of good wishes.
9 There are no nuptial tuberosities on the pollex of breeding males.
10 Eohippus—Lower Eocene of America; fore-feet have four toes and a rudimentary thumb or pollex.
11 In the forefoot all the digits except the pollex, or first, were well developed.