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Wing-footed   Listen
adjective
Wing-footed  adj.  
1.
Having wings attached to the feet; as, wing-footed Mercury; hence, swift; moving with rapidity; fleet.
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.





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"Wing-footed" Quotes from Famous Books



... hasty call The gowned tribes, how graceful wouldst thou stand! So stood Cyllenius5 erst in Priam's hall, Wing-footed messenger of Jove's command, And so, Eurybates6 when he address'd To Peleus' ...
— Poemata (William Cowper, trans.) • John Milton


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