The pollex is rudimentary, and the hallux is opposable.
Of these the third digit (as in Perissodactyles) is the most prominent; it is at least double the width of the second or third finger; the pollex is very slender.
The metatarsus is bald, and the pollex and hallux are very well developed.
The pollex takes no share in the wing, but projects, strongly armed with a claw, from the upper margin.
The fore-limbs are short and five fingered, and the short pollex has no claw; the hind-limbs are excessively long and only three-toed.
The eyes and the ears are large; the pollex is rudimentary, and bears a nail instead of a claw.
The chief distinctive feature of this genus, whose skeleton is not yet known, is the presence of only four digits on each limb; the pollex and the hallux being entirely absent.
There are only four toes visible externally on both fore- and hind-limbs, but pollex and hallux exist in the skeleton, with a single phalanx each.
In the Anthropoidea it is the hallux or pollex which is subject to great variation.
The pollex and hallux are small; the tail is long.
The fore- and hind-feet were five-toed, with well-developed pollex and hallux.
About the second instalment of Tullia's dowry, pray consider carefully what ought to be done, as I said in the letter, which Pollex took.
There are almost always five well-developed digits, but in the genera Colobus and Ateles the pollex is vestigial.
All five digits are present, but as a rule in Carnivora vera the pollex is small, and in Hyaena is represented only by a small metacarpal.
In the anterior limb the radius and the pollex are pre-axial, the ulna and the fifth finger are postaxial.
In C the distal phalanges of the pollex and second digit have been omitted.
The pollex is clawed and so is sometimes the second digit; the other digits of the manus are without nails or claws.
The posterior limb is, as a rule, pentedactylate, but in nearly every case the pollex is vestigial or absent.
A) too among Carinatae have only two digits, but in their case it is the pollex which is missing.
A), except that the pollex is absent[64], the manus retains completely the condition which is generally regarded as primitive for the higher Vertebrata.
C) the manus is very similar to that in Phenacodus, but a centrale is present and the pollex is much reduced.
In Orycteropus the pollex is absent, while the other digits are terminated by pointed ungual phalanges.
Sam Pollex lost no time in making acquaintance with the new household.
About midday Sam Pollex came rushing up to the Towers from the village with the news of Doubledick's return.
Sam Pollex was there, and when he caught sight of the parlourmaid of the Dower House he sidled up to her elbow, listened with delight to her exclamations of "My gracious!
When Dick returned home in the evening he was met by Sam Pollex in a state of considerable excitement.
Dick Trevanion had come out at sunset with his companion Sam Pollex to fish for salmon bass, which at this time of year were usually plentiful along the coast.
Old Pollex had told him that the Squire had threatened many times that unless John reformed he would no longer be allowed to occupy the Dower House, and had forgiven him over and over again.
When he returned later in the day from a vain quest for the choughs, Sam Pollex told him that the village was seething with rage, and everybody was asking what had become of Doubledick.
While waiting for Sam, he went to the kitchen, where Reuben Pollex was washing the dishes, and asked him if he could tell him how to tackle a seal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pollex" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: digit; finger; index; thumb
