pollex

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pollex (noun; Latin pollex, thumb): 1. The thumb.

2. (Arthropoda: Insecta) In Lepidoptera, a finger-like process at the anal angle of the cucullus of Noctuidae.

3. (Arthropoda: Crustacea) see fixed finger.