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BIRD'S FOOT

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The foot of a bird

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("bird's foot" is a kind of...):

animal foot; foot (the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings)

Meronyms (parts of "bird's foot"):

talon (a sharp hooked claw especially on a bird of prey)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bird's foot"):

claw (a bird's foot)

zygodactyl foot (a bird's foot having the first and fourth toes of each foot directed backward and the second and third forward)

heterodactyl foot (a bird's foot having the first and second toes of each foot directed backward and the third and fourth forward)

webbed foot (a bird's foot with folds of skin between the toes)

lobate foot (a bird's foot having separate toes each with membranous flaps along the sides)

Holonyms ("bird's foot" is a part of...):

bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)

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