limbed

[ limd ]

adjective

1. having a specified number or kind of limbs limb (often used in combination):

   a long-limbed dancer.

limbed

/ lɪmd /

adjective

1. 1. having limbs
   2. ( in combination )

      short-limbed

      strong-limbed

Other Words From

• under·limbed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of limbed¹

Middle English word dating back to 1275–1325; limb ¹, -ed ³

Example Sentences

The story of all land animals begins with a squat-limbed, long-bodied swamp fish.

From Popular-Science

This is just another thing that they are able to do that may be more difficult for limbed animals, giving the snakes, for lack of a better word, a leg up.

From Popular-Science

“They were longer-limbed, they rotated their torsos much faster, and sometimes they were taller,” he says.

From The Daily Beast

I was trapped in an eerie artistic fifth dimension, feeling misty-eyed and heavy-limbed.

From The Daily Beast

From his earliest youth Pierre Franois, handsome and long-limbed, hot-blooded and vain, thirsted after adventure.

From Project Gutenberg

He was handsome, with the olive-tinted warmth of his southern homefairly tall, straight-limbed and lithea picture of poetic grace.

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Many of the horses were sleek, glossy, and fine-limbed, like racers; others were strong-boned and rough.

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Lieutenant Ralph Thurstane was a tall, full-chested, finely-limbed gladiator of perhaps four and twenty.

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Their horses are small and slender-limbed, but very active and capable of enduring great fatigue.

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