Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not webbed; not web-footed.

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  • adjective Not webbed.

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  • adjective (of the feet of some animals) not webbed

Etymologies

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un- +‎ webbed

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Examples

  • Unlike pelicans however, the long toes of the Shoebill are unwebbed and it is stork-like in some aspects of behaviour, practicing bill clattering and also dribbling water onto its eggs and young during the heat of the day.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • And everyone wanted to be nice to him, pet him, stare at his unwebbed hands, run their fingers through his reddish hair.

    Do Comets Dream? S. P. Somtow 2003

  • She was strangely beautiful, with her ringlets of dark hair and her—unwebbed hands—a sure sign that she was not of this world.

    Do Comets Dream? S. P. Somtow 2003

  • "At least you had sense enough to wear protective clothing in this hotbox," one said as they carefully unwebbed Copper and carried her out of the lock.

    The Lani People 1951

  • Lodging lake tahoe of a semantically skua unwebbed autocratically from a battler in sidesplitting ixobrychus with syneresis of cds that are not extraterritorial in your slickly gerbille at all.

    Rational Review 2009

  • As they came near one bed of reeds several coots began to paddle away, jerking their bald heads as they went, while a couple of moor-hens, which as likely as not were both cocks, swam as fast as their long thin unwebbed toes would allow them, twitching their black-barred white tails in unison with the jerking of their scarlet-fronted little heads, and then taking flight upon their rounded wings, dragging their long thin toes along the top of the water, and shrieking with fear, till they dropped into the sheltering cover ahead.

    Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp George Manville Fenn 1870

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