webbed

UK: /ˈwɛbd/ US: (webd)

From the verb web: (⇒ conjugate)

webbed is: ⓘ

v past

v past p

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

webbed  (webd), adj. 

1. having the fingers or toes connected by a web or membrane:
   the webbed foot of a duck or beaver.
2. connected or joined by a web, as the fingers or toes.
3. formed like or with a web:
   a webbed roof.

• web + -ed³ 1655–65

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

webbed / wɛbd/ adjective

1. (of the feet of certain animals) having the digits connected by a thin fold of skin; palmate
2. having, consisting of, or resembling a web

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025

web /wɛb/   n. [countable]

1. Insects, Invertebrates a fabric formed by weaving.
2. a cobweb.
3. something that is interconnected:
   a web of branches.
4. a complicated, but connected, set or pattern of circumstances, facts, etc.:
   a web of evidence; the web of life.
5. something that entangles:
   a web of lies.
6. Zoology a piece of skinlike material connecting the digits of an animal, as a bird living in water.

webbed, adj.: 

the webbed feet of a duck.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

web  (web), n., v., webbed, web•bing. 
n. 

1. Insects, Invertebrates something formed by or as if by weaving or interweaving.
2. a thin, silken material spun by spiders and the larvae of some insects, as the webworms and tent caterpillars;
   cobweb.
3. Textiles
   • a woven fabric, esp. a whole piece of cloth in the course of being woven or after it comes from the loom.
   • the flat woven strip, without pile, often found at one or both ends of an Oriental rug.
4. something resembling woven material, esp. something having an interlaced or latticelike appearance:
   He looked up at the web of branches of the old tree.
5. an intricate set or pattern of circumstances, facts, etc.:
   The thief was convicted by a web of evidence. Who can understand the web of life?
6. something that snares or entangles;
   a trap:
   innocent travelers caught in the web of international terrorism.
7. webbing.
8. Zoology a membrane that connects the digits of an animal, as the toes of aquatic birds.
9. Birds [Ornith.]
   • the series of barbs on each side of the shaft of a feather. See illus. under feather. 
   • the series on both sides, collectively.
10. an integral or separate part of a beam, rail, truss, or the like, that forms a continuous, flat, narrow, rigid connection between two stronger, broader parallel parts, as the flanges of a structural shape, the head and foot of a rail, or the upper and lower chords of a truss.
11. Mechanical Engineering [Mach.] an arm of a crank, usually one of a pair, holding one end of a crankpin at its outer end. See illus. under crankshaft. 
12. Architecture (in a vault) any surface framed by ribbing.
13. Printing a large roll of paper, as for continuous feeding of a web press.
14. Radio and Television a network of interlinked stations, services, communications, etc., covering a region or country.
15. Radio and Television, Informal Terms [Informal.] a network of radio or television broadcasting stations.
16. Computing (usu. cap.) See World Wide Web.

v.t. 
17. to cover with or as if with a web;
    envelop.
18. to ensnare or entrap.

v.i. 
19. to make or form a web.
• bef. 900; Middle English (noun, nominal), Old English; cognate with Dutch, Low German webbe, Old Norse vefr; akin to weave
web′less, adj. 
web′like′, adj. 
Synonyms
• 5. network, tissue, tangle, maze.