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  • noun Plural form of palmiped.

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Examples

  • It was a “coot,” the size of a large partridge, belonging to the group of macrodactyls which form the transition between the order of wading birds and that of palmipeds.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

  • It was a “coot,” the size of a large partridge, belonging to the group of macrodactyls which form the transition between the order of wading birds and that of palmipeds.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

  • But damned, who have soiled the white and pristine Arctic ice, safe haven of our friendly warm and sympathetic palmipeds?

    KDE-Look.org Content 2010

  • But damned, who have soiled the white and pristine Arctic ice, safe haven of our friendly warm and sympathetic palmipeds?

    KDE-Look.org Content 2010

  • “The genus, moreover, as you doubtless know, is the most prolific in the order of palmipeds.

    The Magic Skin 2007

  • "The genus, moreover, as you doubtless know, is the most prolific in the order of palmipeds.

    The Magic Skin Honor�� de Balzac 1824

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