limbed

SayLIMD/lɪmd/

3 meanings of limbed

1
adjective
Used after a describing word to show what kind of arms and legs a person or animal has.
The long-limbed heron waded slowly through the shallow water.
Their new puppy was a clumsy, loose-limbed bundle of energy.
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2
adjective
Having arms, legs, wings, or other body parts that stick out and help with moving or grabbing.
Like a tree with branches, a limbed animal has parts sticking out from its body.
The fossil showed a fully limbed creature unlike modern snakes.
Most limbed animals move across land more easily than legless ones.
Oppositelimbless
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3
verb
Past tense and past participle of limb. Use it for the past, or after has, have, had, is, was or were.
The men limbed the old tree in the backyard yesterday.
He limbed the branches off before cutting the trunk.
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limbed is a form of limb

limb, verb: To cut all the branches off a tree, or the arms and legs off an animal. Full entry

Forms: limblimbs he/she/itlimbing -ing formlimbed past tense, past participle
Spelling: limb → limbed: add -ed
Sound: The ending sounds like /d/.

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Origin

From Middle English ilimed, meaning "having limbs." It comes from an old prefix plus lim ("limb") and the ending -ed. You can see it as limb + -ed.