webbed
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3.1
- adjective
- /wɛbd/
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palmeado
- Propelled by their large webbed feet, the birds are powerful and swift underwater swimmers.
- webbed feet
- webbed hands
- webbed fingers
This is going to be his body, and Young Adipose have two little webbed hands and then they have little stumpy feet.
- This is going to be his body, and Young Adipose have two little webbed hands and then they have little stumpy feet.
- Well, I do have webbed feet, you know that, right?
- Or why does the dock have webbed feet, which causes Franklin to invent swimming flippers and causes Leonardo to try to understand flying.
Examples
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Webbed feet, studded with curving claws, flapped across the smooth floor as the creature advanced.
Fiction book (1992) -
The duck's webbed feet help it paddle through the pond easily.
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Well, I do have webbed feet, you know that, right?
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We are probably the only band in England where at least two of the members have got webbed feet.
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Then he looked down at his own webbed feet.
Fiction book (1998) -
No way could those webbed feet make it into those boots.
Fiction book (1991) -
If you're a duck, where are your webbed feet?
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The turtle has stringy legs and webbed feet.
Fiction book (2000) -
Then she dove, her webbed feet popping out of the water just briefly.
Fiction book (1992) -
Before Alicia noticed, Trillhalla, with a flick of her webbed feet, propelled herself from the water into the canoe beside the visitors.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
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3.7
Having toes joined by skin to help an animal swim, like a duck or frog
Skin joins the toes to help the animal swim
Feet with three toes joined by thin skin to help the bird swim
Toes partly joined by a web of skin, as on some birds' feet
Antonyms
Compounds
How Aquatic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word webbed comes from web, which means 'woven' or 'net-like', like a spider web. Think of a thin skin stretched like a small web between the toes; that's why webbed means the toes are joined by skin to help an animal swim.