hand

Japanese: hand

...The word is also sometimes applied to animals such as squirrels and mice that eat food with both hands. In English, the hand of a human is called a hand, but the hands of all quadrupeds are anatomically equivalent and homologous, so in anatomical and zoological terms they are generally called manus (similarly, the foot is usually called foot, but academically it is collectively called pes). The general shape of the hand of primates, including humans, dates back to primitive amphibians, including the five fingers, and has well retained the prototype of quadrupeds.

From [Banana]

...The large fruits grow on an upright stem, making them easily distinguishable from Southeast Asian bananas.
[Cultivation, production, utilization]
A whole bunch or bunch of bananas for sale is called a bunch, a palm or tier cut into sections is called a hand, and an individual fruit (finger) is called a finger. In commercially cultivated varieties, the whole bunch has a dozen or so tiers, and each tier has about 15 fingers. If each finger weighs about 200g, then one bunch weighs 20 to 30kg.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "hand" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…またときには，食物を〈両手〉で持って食べるリスやネズミなどにもこの語が応用される。なお，英語では，ヒトなどの手はhandと呼ぶが，四足動物の〈手〉はすべて解剖学的に等価の相同器官であるから，解剖学および動物学用語としては一般的にmanusという(同様に，〈足〉はふつうfootだが，学術的にはpesと総称する)。ヒトを含めて霊長類の手の概形は，指を5本もつことをはじめ，原始両生類にさかのぼるもので，四足動物の原型をよく保持している。…

【バナナ】より

…直立した果軸に大きな果実がつくので，東南アジア系のバナナからすぐに区別できる。【堀田満】
［栽培，生産，利用］
　商品としてのバナナの全果房もしくは果叢（かそう）はbunch，段切りした果掌または果段はhand,1本ずつの果実(果指)はfingerという。経済栽培の品種は全果房が十数段の果掌で，1果段に15本内外の果指を有し，1果指が約200gとすれば，1果房は20～30kgとなる。…

※「hand」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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