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Webbed   /wɛbd/   Listen
verb
Web  v. t.  (past & past part. webbed; pres. part. webbing)  To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to envelop; to entangle.


adjective
Webbed  adj.  
1.
Provided with a web.
2.
(Zool.) Having the toes united by a membrane, or web; as, the webbed feet of aquatic fowls.





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"Webbed" Quotes from Famous Books



... as it seems to me, explicable on this theory. How strange it is that a bird, under the form of a woodpecker, should prey on insects on the ground; that upland geese which rarely or never swim, would possess webbed feet; that a thrush-like bird should dive and feed on sub-aquatic insects; and that a petrel should have the habits and structure fitting it for the life of an auk! and so in endless other cases. But on the view of each species constantly trying to increase in number, with ...
— Little Masterpieces of Science: - The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer • Various
... commands, they carried the little ones over, though they were transformed just as the others. Upon reaching the opposite shore, they were again restored to their natural forms, excepting their hands, which were duck-webbed. These webs were cut with [A]h-ai-[u]-ta's stone knife and thus restored ...
— The Religious Life of the Zuni Child - Bureau of American Ethnology • (Mrs.) Tilly E. (Matilda Coxe Evans) Stevenson
... and—no, he didn't miss it, he hit it good and proper, and away sailed the ball. Off Buddy started for first base, hoping he could make a home run, but alas! before he got to second base the ball he had knocked was coming down, and was almost in the webbed foot of Jimmie Wibblewobble, who was waiting to catch it, and if it was caught that would mean that Buddy would be out, and his side would not ...
— Buddy And Brighteyes Pigg - Bed Time Stories • Howard R. Garis
... settlers. It is said there is no spot of land in the State three hundred feet above the sea-level. Men born with fins and webbed feet might enjoy themselves in the lakes and swamps, which form a considerable portion of Florida. Those whose tastes are favorable to timber-cutting, can find a profitable employment in preparing live-oak ...
— Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field • Thomas W. Knox
... Mesdames" he cries, flourishing a war-spear some nine feet in length. "Come and see the wonderful Peruvian maiden of Tanjore, with webbed fingers and toes, her mouth in the back of her head, and her eyes in the soles of her feet! Only four sous each, and an opportunity that will ...
— In the Days of My Youth • Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards


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