Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having webbing that connects all four toes, as in waterbirds such as pelicans, gannets, and boobies.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having all four toes full-webbed; steganopodous: said of the parts themselves, as well as of the birds; belonging to the order Totipalmatæ. See also cut under
Phaëthon . - noun A totipalmate bird.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having all four toes united by a web; -- said of certain sea birds, as the pelican and the gannet. See
Illust. underaves .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology Having all four
toes united by aweb , as in thepelican .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin tōtus, whole; see total + palmate.]
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Latin totus all, whole + English palmate.
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burntsox commented on the word totipalmate
having all four toes fully webbed
October 6, 2007
arby commented on the word totipalmate
burntsox, excellent!
October 6, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word totipalmate
"...a tropic-bird came clipping fast across the breeze and circled above the ship, a satiny-white bird with a pearly pink flush and two immensely long tail feathers trailing far behind... Then Stephen turned to Martin, whose bird had flown by now, though not without having showed him its yellow bill and its totipalmate feet..."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 129
February 20, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word totipalmate
totipalmation
January 9, 2009