Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having palmated feet, or feet with toes connected by a membrane; web-footed; palmiped.
- In ornithology, pinnatiped; having pinnate feet, the toes being separately furnished with flaps, as in the grebes, coots, phalaropes, fin-foots, etc.
- In Mollusca, pteropod. Also
fin-toed .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having palmate feet.
- adjective Having lobate toes, as the coot and grebe.
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Examples
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When the sea was a little agitated on the Brazilian coast, we frequently saw the large sea-bladder floating on the surface; here we also caught with our net a new species of small _Hyaloea_, and of the fin-footed _Steira_, which approaches the nearest to the _Limacina_.
A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 Otto von Kotzebue 1816
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Modern seals, sea lions and walruses belong to a group called the pinnipeds, or fin-footed mammals, which are descended from land-living ancestors and evolved flippers in place of limbs as they adapted to water.
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Walruses are the only pinniped (fin-footed mammal) that has tusks, which are grotesque elongations of the upper canine teeth.
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Walruses are the only pinniped (fin-footed mammal) that has tusks, which are grotesque elongations of the upper canine teeth.
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Walruses are the only pinniped (fin-footed mammal) that has tusks, which are grotesque elongations of the upper canine teeth.
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Walruses are the only pinniped (fin-footed mammal) that has tusks, which are grotesque elongations of the upper canine teeth.
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(13-16) are covered with Crabs of various kinds, including the long-legged spider-crabs, common crabs with oysters growing upon their backs, and fin-footed swimming crabs.
How to See the British Museum in Four Visits W. Blanchard Jerrold 1855
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Pinnipeds are fin-footed mammals (from Latin pinna (fin) and ped
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