amanousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

amanous ‎(not comparable)

1. Lacking hands or manus.
   • 1894 March, J. Mark Baldwin, “The Origin of Right-handedness”, Popular Science, volume 44, page 614:

     It is extremely improbable that dextrality should have arisen among the quadrupeds (または amanous bipeds), for experience was lacking of unilateral stimulation, and a spontaneous variation of this kind would have produced such inconvenience of locomotion and ultimately such asymmetry of form that it would have been weeded out.

   • 2012, William Penn, Love in the Time of Flowers, ISBN 142516949X, page 340:

     Also, he was holding in his hand (oh, that I had crayoned him amanous, unable to hold onto anything, hindsight within me bayed wistfully) a thin strip of spattania ribbon that was as vibrantly yellow as the gunebo lily.