Toilet-clawとは 意味・読み方・使い方

A toilet-claw (toilet claw, grooming claw) is the specialized claw or nail on the foot of certain primates, used for personal grooming. All prosimians have a toilet claw, but the digit that is specialized in this manner varies. Tarsiers have a toilet claw on toe two and toe three. With one possible exception, in the suborder Strepsirrhini, which includes lemurs, galagos and lorises, the toilet claw is on the second toe. The possible exception is the aye-aye, which has claws instead of nails on toes 2 through 5. There is some debate concerning whether any of these claws (and if so which ones) are toilet claws.