Sentence examples for sixth digit from inspiring English sources
The giant panda has a special bone formation of the forefoot that functions as a sixth digit; it is opposable to the other five and thus is useful in handling bamboo.
It was probably climatic changes, and the advance of humankind, that drove the bears, with their unusual sixth digit (the panda thumb) and piebald markings, into the steep and inaccessible mountains of south-west China.
These tunneling mammals sport what looks like a sixth digit on each front paw, a seeming exception to the rule limiting land vertebrates to 10 fingers.
Although not as famous as the panda's similar extra thumb, a heavy tool for grasping bamboo, the mole's sixth digit is an evolutionary curiosity.
Gould called this approach to historical science from paleontology to evolution to linguistics the "panda principle of imperfection", in honor of his favorite example of the "panda's thumb" (1978a, 1980), a modified wrist bone that functions, clumsily, as a sixth digit on this animal's forepaw.
It displays only in scientific notation, with a five digit mantissa and a two digit exponent, although a sixth digit of the mantissa was stored internally.
The first digit identifies the alloy group and the second two digits identify composition.
Suppression of digits in hoofed mammals frequently has occurred in the following sequence: the pollex (first digit) is the first to be suppressed, then the minimus (fifth digit), the index (second digit), and finally the annularis (fourth digit).
The subjects consistently overestimated the duration of the first digit.
(After this withdrawal, her ranking will acquire a third digit).
