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web-footed

British  

adjective

  1. (of certain animals) having webbed feet that facilitate swimming

"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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A web-footed loner navigates a landless Earth, while a ruthless gangster chases him, a woman and their young companion.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 19, 2019

Among Mr. Perry’s earliest acting credits was a gig performing as Freddie Bird, his high school’s web-footed mascot.

From Washington Post Mar. 4, 2019

Somewhere far to the south waited a wide, gray marshland, pale and misty under the warm southern moon�waited the winter haven for all the web-footed creatures of the air.

From Time Magazine Archive

A very primitive link between mammals and aquatic birds, the platypus is a duckbilled, web-footed, molelike creature that nurses its young.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here the goose and duck pens were fenced off, for Aunty Rose would not allow the web-footed fowl to wander at large, as did the other poultry.

From Carolyn of the Corners by Endicott, Ruth Belmore

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