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What does opposable mean?

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Adjective
  1. Capable of being opposed or resisted.
  2. Capable of being placed opposite something else.
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Digits 1 and 2 on the forefeet are opposable to digits 3-5, and the hindfoot has a well-developed hallux.
They have an opposable hallux on their hind feet, and their pelage is soft, thick, and wooly.
In other words, our ancestral rodents did not merely evolve gradually until they emerged as bipeds with opposable thumbs.
A panda with a fully opposable thumb that is lacking in its nearest relatives is hard to explain via evolution.
Their fore and hind feet have five toes, all with sharp claws except for the clawless, thumblike, opposable innermost toe on the hind feet.
Nocturnal and arboreal, they clamber up trees and hang from limbs thanks to long prehensile tails and opposable inside toes on their hind feet.

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