Crossword-Solution: POLLEX
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pollex | n. | 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. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “POLLEX”
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| The thumb. | 1 answer |
| Thumb, to an anatomist | 1 answer |
| first digit of the forelimb of amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals | 1 answer |
| Thumb | 12 answers |
| digit | 19 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
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greedy person
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Sentences with POLLEX (5)
This digit is called the 'pollex,' or thumb; and, like the others, it bears a flat nail upon the back of its terminal joint.
Pollex, the gladiator, was father of Varus!--not worse, but just as bad, as savage, as beastly in his vices, as are all of that butcher tribe.
Still another may be pointed out: in the innermost toe or _pollex_, being turned outwards, as if intended for perching,--which the frigate-bird actually does when it visits the shore, often making its nest upon trees, and roosting among the branches.
See Pre-, Pollex.] (Anat.) Defn: An extra first digit, or rudiment of a digit, on the preaxial side of the pollex.
Note: The radius is on the same side of the limb as the thumb, or pollex, and in man it so articulated that its lower end is capable of partial rotation about the ulna.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, New Yorker, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1961–2022).