forelimb

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• Its powerful forelimbs and dexterous, three-clawed "hands" enabled it to reach even higher to pull branches to its mouth.

  Academic text (2009)

• During rectilinear, fast swimming, the forelimbs (flippers) are not involved in propulsion; they merely act as steering devices (Fish and Hui 1991).

  Academic text (2001)

• As Grant watched, a single forelimb reached up very slowly to part the ferns beside the animal's face.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Seal locomotion on land, especially at slower speeds, is typically led by the head and forelimbs, rather than the center of mass.

  Academic text (2018)

• Note the long legs and relatively short forelimbs, atypical for most pterosaurs.

  Blog text (18)

• The spade-like forelimbs are enlarged and very powerful, ideally suited for digging.

  The Duke of Burgundy (2014)

• Crucially, though, the forelimbs of Tiktaalik combine traits of fishes.

  Academic text (2006)

• An analogous appendage, which evolved independently (and with five toes, not seven), is the forelimb of the modern river dolphin.

  Academic text (2006)

• The insets show the creatures' right forelimbs (except for Ichthyostega, which is a right hind limb); the scale bars each represent one inch.

  Academic text (2006)

• As in modern cetaceans, basilosaurids and dorudontids have a streamlined form, short neck, forelimbs shaped like flippers, and strongly reduced hind limbs.

  Academic text (2001)

Synonyms

F

foreleg

vsforelimb

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A front leg of a four-legged animal like a dog or horse

is broader and covers front limbs across different species including wings and flippers

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology