Wing-footed

1 definition found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wing-footed \Wing"-foot`ed\, a.
     1. Having wings attached to the feet; as, wing-footed
        Mercury; hence, swift; moving with rapidity; fleet.
        --Drayton.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. (Zool.)
        (a) Having part or all of the feet adapted for flying.
        (b) Having the anterior lobes of the foot so modified as
            to form a pair of winglike swimming organs; -- said of
            the pteropod mollusks.
            [1913 Webster]