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Some beetles' forelegs are adapted to digging, more than walking.
Either of the two legs towards the front of a four-legged animal such as a horse, or towards the front of a many-legged animal such as most insects, or of a piece of furniture, etc.
1903 Thomas Hunt Morgan: Evolution and adaptation
For example, the foreleg of the mole is admirably suited for digging underground. A similarmodification is found in an entirely different group of the animal kingdom, namely, in the mole cricket... In both of these cases the adaptation is the more obvious, because, while the leg of the mole is formed on the same general plan as that of other vertebrates, and the leg of the mole cricket has the same fundamentalstructure as that of other insects, yet in both cases the details of structure and the general proportions have been so altered, that the leg is fitted for entirely different purposes from that to which the legs of other vertebrates and of other insects are put.
1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm, London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
Clover made a sort of wall round them with her great foreleg[…]
Translations
either of the two legs towards the front of a four-legged animal
