Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An order founded by Schaeffer in 1774, and in Cuvier's system the sixth order of birds, corresponding to the Anseres of Linnæus and the Natatores of Illiger; web-footed or swimming birds.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) Same as
natatores .
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Examples
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This will perhaps cause embarrassment to ornithologists who are careful in describing and classing the palmipedes; they will doubtless ask if a single name is really suited to two families who are poles apart from one another and who differ in several respects, particularly in their beaks, winglets, and claws.
Penguin Island 1909
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The fertility of the soil, and the vastness of the lakes and marshes, attract many migratory birds; passerinæ and palmipedes flock thither from all parts of the Mediterranean.
History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) M. L. McClure 1881
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A man who has an itching for the thing, and who desires to become a pond-skimmer, as they are called, carefully selects from his squadron of _palmipedes_, the strongest, the most intelligent duck or goose of the party; his choice made, he immediately sets to work to give him the education befitting a bird destined for so honourable and diplomatic an employment.
Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches Henri de Crignelle 1840
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"All the individuals of this order, as their name -- _palmipedes_, or web-footed birds -- indicates, have their toes united by a wide membrane.
Aventures d'un jeune naturaliste. English Lucien Biart 1863
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