semi-ˈpalmate, a. Zool.
[semi- 8 d.]
Partly palmate, half-webbed.
| 1828–32 Webster, Semi-palmate, Semi-palmated, half palmated or webbed. 1856–8 W. Clark Van der Hoeven's Zool. II. 249 Anterior feet cloven, posterior semipalmate. 1872 Coues Key N. Amer. Birds 51 This constitutes the semipalmate (½-webbed, that is,) foot. |
So
semi-ˈpalmated a.; hence
ˌsemi-palˈmation, the condition of being semi-palmate.
| 1785 Pennant Arctic Zool. II. 502 Avoset... Feet *semi⁓palmated. 1808–13 A. Wilson & Bonaparte Amer. Ornith. (1831) III. 63 Tringa semipalmata... Semipalmated Sandpiper. 1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. III. 439/1 The Caymans are semipalmated. |
| 1872 Coues Key N. Amer. Birds 51 They [webs] run out to the end of the first, or along part of the second joint, constituting true *semipalmation. |