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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/webbed/#m1)

2) Webbed can also mean covered with or made like a web. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/webbed/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/webbed/#x1)
- A frog's webbed back feet help it swim fast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/webbed/#x2)
- Flippers give divers webbed feet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/webbed/#x3)
- The platypus has webbed front feet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/webbed/#x4)
- Otters swim well with their webbed paws. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/webbed/#x5)
- The penguin waddled on its webbed feet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/webbed/#x6)
- She had yellow legs, and webbed feet, and was considered a great beauty on account of her waddle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/webbed/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/161-borneo-orangutans-proboscis-monkeys-and-the-biggest-flower/5/)
- [A gull has two legs, two wings and webbed feet for swimming.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water/16/)
- [A duck's webbed feet push more water than plain toes would.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/5-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «webbed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/webbed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.