web-footed
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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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
On a field better suited to the activities of ducks than to the less web-footed endeavors of spike-shod ball-bearers, a muddy team from Pittsburgh beat a muddy team from Carnegie Tech, 12 to 0.
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
It has the power of perching on trees, an accomplishment which we should hardly suspect a web-footed bird of possessing.
From Endurance Test or, How Clear Grit Won the Day by Douglas, Alan
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