Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having lobate feet; lobiped, as a coot, grebe, or phalarope.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Lobiped.
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Of the lobe-footed birds, seven species, of which is the rare and beautiful Wilson's Phalarope, which breeds in the wet prairies near
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various
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These lobe-footed birds consist first of the Grebes, which are connected with fresh-water ducks; and, secondly, of the Phalaropes, which are a sort of sea-gulls.
Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds John Ruskin 1859
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