Its four lower limbs push from a bulbous base, thick and flaring distally, each terminated by flexible feet.

The eight limbs terminated alternately in four sets of claws that would with maturity evolve into manipulatory digits while the remain- ing four ended in flat, sharp-edged, osseous blades that were larger than twice the spread of Lioren's medial arms.

In fact it was wearing nothing at all, and the grippers in which the upper two limbs terminated were empty of any tools or weapons.

The eight limbs terminate alternately in four sets of claws (that will with maturity evolve into manipula-tory digits) and four flat, sharp-edged, osseous blades.

The limbs, save for their black fur, roughly resembled the hind legs of prehistoric earth's giant saurians, and terminated in ridgy-veined pads that were neither hooves nor claws.

It also has two arms, each containing a fair amount of brain power in its own right; four reasonably smart fingers; eight fingerlets - and so on until its ever-branching limbs finally terminate in roughly one trillion microscopic appendages.

The limbs had two joints of articulation and terminated in splayed hands with opposable thumbs on either side of the palm.

They moved on to a plant whose huge limbs terminated in delicate human hands, each finger manicured and with bright polish on the nail.

The six limbs each terminate in very capable hands, widespread, but each bearing six digits, of which the first and last are opposed and may be regarded as thumbs.