Flippered

adj, verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of flipper form-of, participle, past
Adjective
  1. 1
    Having flippers. not-comparable

    "But researchers have little doubt that the figure is on a downward slide, as the polar ice sheet on which the mammal depends for every stage of its life thins and retreats from beneath its flippered feet."

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"But researchers have little doubt that the figure is on a downward slide, as the polar ice sheet on which the mammal depends for every stage of its life thins and retreats from beneath its flippered feet."

Etymology

From flipper + -ed.

Related phrases

white-flippered penguin

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