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Definition of Knobbed
1. Adjective. Used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots. "A knobbed stick"
Definition of Knobbed
1. a. Containing knobs; full of knobs; ending in a nob. See Illust of Antenna.
Definition of Knobbed
1. Verb. (present participle of knob) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Knobbed
1. knob [adj] - See also: knob
Lexicographical Neighbors of Knobbed
Literary usage of Knobbed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Birds of America by John James] [Audubon (1844)
"The following description, however, is taken from one in my own possession.
The species is said to occur on the north-west coast. knobbed-BILLED ..."
2. Illustrations of Natural History: Wherein are Exhibited Upwards of Two by Dru Drury (1773)
"—The Antenna knobbed, and cleft at their extremities. ... The Antenna are knobbed
at their extremities, and placed near the end of the beak ..."
3. The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society Delineated: Published by Edward Turner Bennett (1831)
"THE RED-knobbed CURASSOW. ('/: i\ ) I.'.•;.'/ ;•/./;. ALTHOUGH we have seen but
a single individual of this breed in the adult state and bearing the ..."
4. A Cyclopædic Dictionary of the Mang'anja Language Spoken in British Central by David Clement Ruffelle Scott (1892)
"tion) ; a staff, a ' round-knobbed stick for attack or defence ; the stick or
shaft of a spear ; yo-za class. [The ' knob-carric ' is made with a heavy head ..."
5. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter (1909)
"apex: lamina of the petals cream-color, elliptical, obtuse, longer than the
slender hooked knobbed spurs.—Shaded cliffs in the Laramie range, Wyoming. 9. ..."
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