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Definition of Palmipeds
1. palmiped [n] - See also: palmiped
Lexicographical Neighbors of Palmipeds
Literary usage of Palmipeds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. First Steps in Scientific Knowledge: Complete in Seven Parts by Paul Bert (1887)
"palmipeds.— Web-footed Birds.—These have, as their name indicates, ... 135) are
palmipeds that swim to perfection and fly very well, but walk very badly. ..."
2. Science and Faith: Or, Man as an Animal, and Man as a Member of Society by Paul Topinard (1899)
"Again there is the type of several stilt-birds and of palmipeds, like the swan;
in the latter the family circle is rigorously closed; all are closely ..."
3. Text Book of Veterinary Medicine by James Law (1900)
"Gallinacea: and palmipeds. Causes : Overfeeding after privation ; fermentation ;
lack of water; ... In the palmipeds (ducks, geese) there is no distinct ..."
4. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson. by Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Adgate Lipscomb, Albert Ellery Bergh (1905)
"... and Blumenbach, particularly, arranges it in his order of palmipeds and
toothless genus, with the walrus and ..."
5. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence by Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854)
"... particularly, arranges it in his order of palmipeds and toothless genus, with
the walrus and ..."
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