Webbed
[webd] or [wɛbd]
Definition
(adj.) (of the feet of some animals) having the digits connected by a thin fold of skin .
Editor: Orville--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Web
(a.) Provided with a web.
(a.) Having the toes united by a membrane, or web; as, the webbed feet of aquatic fowls.
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Examples
- What can be plainer than that the webbed feet of ducks and geese are formed for swimming? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The webbed feet of the upland goose may be said to have become almost rudimentary in function, though not in structure. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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