webbed

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwɛbd/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛbd

Adjective

webbed (not comparable)

  1. (of feet or hands) With the digits connected by a thin membrane.
  2. Resembling a web.
  3. Of a feather or part of a feather, having a vane.
    • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 222:
      The two middle feathers of the tail are in the form of slender wires about five inches long, and which diverge in a beautiful double curve. About half an inch of the end of this wire is webbed on the outer side only, awe coloured of a fine metallic green, and being curled spirally inwards form a pair of elegant glittering buttons, hanging five inches below the body, and the same distance apart.
  4. Connected to the World Wide Web.

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Verb

webbed

  1. simple past and past participle of web
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