Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the fingers of the hand, or any digits of the fore limb, connected by means of more or less extensive webs formed of a fold of skin: as, the bat is a completely web-fingered animal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the fingers united by a web for a considerable part of their length.
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Examples
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It held steady, however, even as a mottled green humanoid limb, ending in a web-fingered hand, passed through the energy membrane, followed in short order by the rest of the body of a male Selkie.
Star Trek: TNG: Losing the Peace William Leisner 2009
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It held steady, however, even as a mottled green humanoid limb, ending in a web-fingered hand, passed through the energy membrane, followed in short order by the rest of the body of a male Selkie.
Star Trek: TNG: Losing the Peace William Leisner 2009
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Now Kenny Chesney is on top of the world, singing his songs about trying to force his tongue into the mouth of intangible abstracts and trying to marry some booze to thousands of web-fingered country music aficionados, while Renee Zellweger stars in unfunny cartoons about bees.
Kenny Chesney is The Most Entertaining Cowboy In History 2008
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In one web-fingered manus he carried a data slate loaded with the key details of the Klingons brazen action; in the other he held a hard copy of his unabashedly belligerent official rebuke of Jeanne Vinueza for inciting such an outcome.
Reap the Whirlwind David Mack 2007
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In one web-fingered manus he carried a data slate loaded with the key details of the Klingons brazen action; in the other he held a hard copy of his unabashedly belligerent official rebuke of Jeanne Vinueza for inciting such an outcome.
Reap the Whirlwind David Mack 2007
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In one web-fingered manus he carried a data slate loaded with the key details of the Klingons brazen action; in the other he held a hard copy of his unabashedly belligerent official rebuke of Jeanne Vinueza for inciting such an outcome.
Reap the Whirlwind David Mack 2007
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In one web-fingered manus he carried a data slate loaded with the key details of the Klingons brazen action; in the other he held a hard copy of his unabashedly belligerent official rebuke of Jeanne Vinueza for inciting such an outcome.
Reap the Whirlwind David Mack 2007
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In one web-fingered manus he carried a data slate loaded with the key details of the Klingons brazen action; in the other he held a hard copy of his unabashedly belligerent official rebuke of Jeanne Vinueza for inciting such an outcome.
Reap the Whirlwind David Mack 2007
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In one web-fingered manus he carried a data slate loaded with the key details of the Klingons brazen action; in the other he held a hard copy of his unabashedly belligerent official rebuke of Jeanne Vinueza for inciting such an outcome.
Reap the Whirlwind David Mack 2007
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In one web-fingered manus he carried a data slate loaded with the key details of the Klingons brazen action; in the other he held a hard copy of his unabashedly belligerent official rebuke of Jeanne Vinueza for inciting such an outcome.
Reap the Whirlwind David Mack 2007
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