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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having partial or reduced webbing between the toes, as some wading birds do.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Half-webbed, as the toes of a bird; having partly webbed or imperfectly palmate feet, as a bird: applied to many species whose toes are webbed at the base only, or not more than half-way to their ends. Compare cuts under bicolligate and palmate.
Wiktionary
- adj. semipalmated
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Zoöl.) Having the anterior toes joined only part way down with a web; half-webbed. See
Illust. k under aves.
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