webbed

«webbed» in Mova's school dictionary: Webbed feet or toes have skin joining the toes together… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (webbed)

meaning for a pupil

1) Webbed feet or toes have skin joining the toes together, like ducks, frogs and otters, which helps them swim. tree →

2) Webbed can also mean covered with or made like a web. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons webbed feet are a classic adaptation for swimming: they work like paddles, pushing more water. Ducks, geese, swans, penguins, frogs, platypuses and otters have them; divers wear flippers to copy this. Some people are born with slightly webbed toes, which is usually harmless. Phrases: «webbed feet», «webbed toes».

examples

• Ducks have webbed feet for paddling. tree →
• A frog's webbed back feet help it swim fast. tree →
• Flippers give divers webbed feet. tree →
• The platypus has webbed front feet. tree →
• Otters swim well with their webbed paws. tree →
• The penguin waddled on its webbed feet. tree →
• She had yellow legs, and webbed feet, and was considered a great beauty on account of her waddle. tree →

note

Adjective only (from «web»). Spelled with double b: webbed. Trap: «webbed» has nothing to do with the World Wide Web; a website is not «webbed».

In the corpora

• Male proboscis monkeys have long dangling noses that make their calls louder, and proboscis monkeys swim well with partly webbed feet.
• A gull has two legs, two wings and webbed feet for swimming.
• A duck's webbed feet push more water than plain toes would.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «webbed» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.