fourhandedness
nounEtymology From fourhanded + -ness.
1
The state or quality of being fourhanded; having or using four hands.
- A primary and persistently ground-living form does not develop fourhandedness. The present forelimb of the hominids is incomprehensible without prior arboreal life.1964, Jack Hale Prost, Readings on human evolution, page 15: