: having limbs especially of a specified kind or number
—usually used in combination
strong-limbed
Examples of limbed in a Sentence
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Blinking is typically reserved for limbed vertebrates.
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Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2023
The great calamities and transformations of prehistory are treated more like background; the end-Permian mass extinction—the closest complex life has ever come to annihilation—garners a single paragraph, and the origin of limbed tetrapods from finned fish takes all of four sentences.
—Amy Brady, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
The loss of so many of the many-limbed predators has allowed sea urchins to devour kelp forests that shelter other marine species and sequester carbon out of the atmosphere.
—Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Mar. 2023
One outdoor space has a dotted floral sculpture by Yayoi Kusama, while the entrance court has been colonized by several long-limbed, brightly colored sculptures by New Zealander Francis Upritchard.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2023
These trackways seem to have been formed by a limbed animal with an alternating gait.
—Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2011
Fundamentally is there a difference between a four-legged robot and a four-limbed robot?
—IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2023
And a four-limbed design may not make much sense for such applications.
—WIRED, 4 Oct. 2022
Many-limbed, totally boneless and with skin color and texture that can change in a heartbeat, octopuses seem downright otherworldly.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2018
Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2023
The great calamities and transformations of prehistory are treated more like background; the end-Permian mass extinction—the closest complex life has ever come to annihilation—garners a single paragraph, and the origin of limbed tetrapods from finned fish takes all of four sentences.
—Amy Brady, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
The loss of so many of the many-limbed predators has allowed sea urchins to devour kelp forests that shelter other marine species and sequester carbon out of the atmosphere.
—Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Mar. 2023
One outdoor space has a dotted floral sculpture by Yayoi Kusama, while the entrance court has been colonized by several long-limbed, brightly colored sculptures by New Zealander Francis Upritchard.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2023
These trackways seem to have been formed by a limbed animal with an alternating gait.
—Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2011
Fundamentally is there a difference between a four-legged robot and a four-limbed robot?
—IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2023
And a four-limbed design may not make much sense for such applications.
—WIRED, 4 Oct. 2022
Many-limbed, totally boneless and with skin color and texture that can change in a heartbeat, octopuses seem downright otherworldly.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2018
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“Limbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/limbed. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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