Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having webbing that connects each of the four anterior toes, as in water birds such as pelicans and gannets.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having all four toes full-webbed; steganopodous: said of the parts themselves, as well as of the birds; belonging to the order Totipalmatæ. See also cut under Phaëthon.
- n. A totipalmate bird.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Zoöl.) Having all four toes united by a web; -- said of certain sea birds, as the pelican and the gannet. See
Illust. under aves.
Etymologies
- Latin totus all, whole + English palmate. (Wiktionary)
- Latin tōtus, whole; see total + palmate. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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Lists
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Something I -ate
Words in which the "-ate" suffix is used to mean "having," "resembling," "-like."
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
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hernesheir totipalmation Jan 9, 2009
chained_bear "...a tropic-bird came clipping fast across the breeze and circled above the ship, a satiny-white bird with a pearly pink flush and two immensely long tail feathers trailing far behind... Then Stephen turned to Martin, whose bird had flown by now, though not without having showed him its yellow bill and its totipalmate feet..."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 129 Feb 20, 2008
arby burntsox, excellent! Oct 6, 2007
burntsox having all four toes fully webbed Oct 6, 2007