limbed
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of limbed
Middle English word dating back to 1275–1325; see origin at limb 1, -ed 3
Example Sentences
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She told me this idea of working with these robot cameras and differently limbed models.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2025
A research team including a Penn State biologist completed a new reconstruction of the skeleton of Tiktaalik, the 375-million-year-old fossil fish that is one of the closest relatives to limbed vertebrates.
From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2024
The Chitrasena dancers are also physically different: longer limbed, stretched out, with friendlier and less stylized facial expressions.
From New York Times • May 10, 2023
The tree has been limbed up so there’s a fair amount of sun, probably part shade.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 1, 2021
The spruce tree is densely limbed and needled, but what Alice doesn’t know is that a goshawk can maneuver a maze.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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