Definition of "five-fingered" [five-fingered]

• In zoology, having five fingers or parts likened to fingers.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "He had to stand in the stirrups to pluck a long-stemmed, five-fingered fern with which to bind the sprays into a cross."
• "More five-fingered ferns to be had for the reaching, more branches of redwood and laurel brushing his face as he rode, invited him to continue the manufacture of patterans, which he dropped as he fashioned them."
• "And the five-fingered hand also has tactile sensing throughout the finger sections, so it can feel what it is touching, he said."