Usually means: Thumbs of humans or primates.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. pollices: Merriam-Webster
  2. pollices: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pollices: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pollices: Vocabulary.com
  5. pollices: Wordnik
  6. pollices: Wiktionary
  7. Pollices, pollices: Dictionary.com
  8. Pollices: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Pollices: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. pollices: FreeDictionary.org
  11. pollices: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. pollices: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Pollices: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. pollices: Medical dictionary
  4. Pollices: Drug Medical Dictionary

(Note: See pollex as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pollex)

noun:  The thumb; the first, or preaxial, digit of the forelimb, corresponding to the hallux in the hind limb. In birds, the pollex is the joint which bears the alula or bastard wing.
▸ Also see pollex


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