So also no polydactylous animal is furnished with horns.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Parts of Animals] Reference

On the other hand, it is elongated in all polydactylous animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Parts of Animals] Reference

As to the polydactylous quadrupeds, none of them have huckle-bones.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Parts of Animals] Reference

It is true that in the smaller polydactylous quadrupeds the hind feet also have each five toes.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Parts of Animals] Reference

For horns are defensive weapons, and these polydactylous animals possess other means of security.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Parts of Animals] Reference

For in polydactylous quadrupeds the fore-feet are intended not merely to support the weight of the body, but to serve as hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Parts of Animals] Reference

As to the animals that are not polydactylous but produce few at a birth, or have horns, their dugs are placed in the region of the thighs.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Parts of Animals] Reference

Not but what even among quadrupeds there is at any rate a tendency for such as are polydactylous to use their forefeet not only for locomotion but as hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Parts of Animals] Reference

For if they had they would not be polydactylous, but the divisions of the foot would only extend to that amount of its breadth which was covered by the huckle-bone.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Parts of Animals] Reference

The mammae are not more than two, because this animal has only a single young one at a birth; and they are not placed in the region of the thighs, because they never occupy that position in any polydactylous animal such as this.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Parts of Animals] Reference

It is this hand-like office of the anterior limbs which explains why in some of the polydactylous quadrupeds, such as wolves, lions, dogs, and leopards, there are actually five digits on each forefoot, though there are only four on each hind one.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Parts of Animals] Reference

But such as are polydactylous and without horns, though they too are of dwarf-like shape, are so in a less degree; and therefore the greater growth of the lower parts as compared with the upper is also small, being proportionate to this smaller deficiency.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Parts of Animals] Reference

But in elephants, though they must be reckoned polydactylous, as their foot has neither cloven nor solid hoof, the fore-feet, owing to the great size and weight of the body, are reduced to the condition of mere supports; and indeed their slow motion and unfitness for bending make them useless for any other purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Parts of Animals] Reference

Hutchinson, in his comments on a short-limbed, polydactylous dwarf which was dissected by Ruysch, the celebrated Amsterdam anatomist, writes as follows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Hutchinson, 6.220 in his comments on a short-limbed, polydactylous dwarf (Fig. 125) which was dissected by Ruysch, the celebrated Amsterdam anatomist, writes as follows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Do you not know that the polydactylous cactus, which tore your new garment yesterday, has only one beautiful flower, and only one eye? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crushed Flower and Other Stories] Reference

Skeleton of a short-limbed, polydactylous dwarf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Moreover, all polydactylous quadrupeds, as dog, lion, wolf, fox, jackal, produce their young blind, and the eyelids do not separate till after birth.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Generation of Animals] Reference

Thus in such animals as produce but few at a birth, whether horned quadrupeds or those with solid hoofs, the mammae are placed in the region of the thighs, and are two in number, while in such as produce litters, or such as are polydactylous, the dugs are either numerous and placed laterally on the belly, as in swine and dogs, or are only two in number, being set, however, in the centre of the abdomen, as is the case in the lion.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Parts of Animals] Reference