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fin-footed

/fin-foot-id/US // ˈfɪnˌfʊt ɪd //

鳍足型,鳍足,鳍足类,鳍足部

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Ornithology.

    • : web-footed.
    • : having feet with the toes separately furnished with flaps, as the finfoots and coots.

Examples

  • The running machines are a gloomy chorus of heavy-footed stomping.

  • There, so taken, caught in the act, flat-footed, we are obliged to make our stand.

  • Instead, it left the candidate scrambling and her campaign flat footed.

  • The U.S. was wrong-footed diplomatically and militarily humbled.

  • On Sunday the publisher was caught flat-footed and scrambling to respond to the leak.

  • It was no wonder that he felt quite at home in the duck-pond, which was made for web-footed folk.

  • Orellana was very warmly received by armed swift-footed females, which originated the fanciful name Amazonia.

  • Mais on peut bien appeller vn voyage heureux, quand en fin on arrive bon port.

  • En fin il parvint Dieppe, & apres quelque sejour il se mit en mer le 26.

  • Bref ilz remboursent lesditz Marchs de chac deux milles livres, 176 & se mettent en fin la voile le 26.