noun
definition
The anterior limb (or equivalent appendage) of an animal
Examples of forelimbs in a Sentence
The small and mobile forelimbs bear four complete fingers, with the thumb reduced to a bony spur.
Wormshaped, without limbs, except Chirotes which has short, clawed forelimbs.
In the forelimbs the bones corresponding to the third and fourth metacarpals of the pig's foot are fused into a cannon-bone; and a similar condition obtains in the case of the corresponding metatarsals in the hind-limbs.
Forelimbs absent; hind-limbs transformed into a pair of scale-covered flaps.
The forelimbs are always a pair of wings, the fifth digit or "little" finger being enormously elongated for the support of a smooth flying membrane (seen in specimens from the lithographic stone of Bavaria).