opposable
对立的,对立面,对立,对立性
Definitions
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- : capable of being placed opposite to something else: the opposable thumb of primates.
- : capable of being resisted, fought, or opposed.
Examples
This may be because moving around a joystick with your snout is a lot harder than with opposable thumbs, or because the pigs are just not as good at the task as primates.
If frogs had opposable thumbs, Kermit would be twiddling them when Muppets Most Wanted begins.
In the Didelphyidae the foot is broad, all five digits are well developed, and the hallux is opposable to the others.
In the Phalangers and Koalas though the second and third toes are very slender, the hallux is well developed and opposable.
It had the same place in crustacean development that the opposable thumb is believed to have had in that of man.
What a comedy that man should work so hard to prove that his chief glory is his opposable thumb, or a few ounces of brain matter!
Both thumb and great toe are opposable; but the foot is a true foot, and the hand a true hand, in anatomical structure.