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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. having limbs
    2. ( in combination )

      strong-limbed

      short-limbed

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Other Words From

  • under·limbed adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of limbed1

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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