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limbed
/ lɪmd /
adjective
- having limbs
- ( in combination )
strong-limbed
short-limbed
Other Words From
- under·limbed adjective
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
The story of all land animals begins with a squat-limbed, long-bodied swamp fish.
This is just another thing that they are able to do that may be more difficult for limbed animals, giving the snakes, for lack of a better word, a leg up.
“They were longer-limbed, they rotated their torsos much faster, and sometimes they were taller,” he says.
I was trapped in an eerie artistic fifth dimension, feeling misty-eyed and heavy-limbed.
From his earliest youth Pierre Franois, handsome and long-limbed, hot-blooded and vain, thirsted after adventure.
He was handsome, with the olive-tinted warmth of his southern homefairly tall, straight-limbed and lithea picture of poetic grace.
Many of the horses were sleek, glossy, and fine-limbed, like racers; others were strong-boned and rough.
Lieutenant Ralph Thurstane was a tall, full-chested, finely-limbed gladiator of perhaps four and twenty.
Their horses are small and slender-limbed, but very active and capable of enduring great fatigue.
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