palm i nerve (palminerv)

[L. palm a, palm, + nervus, nerve.] Same as palm i nerved. palm i nerved (pal'mi-nėrvd), a. [ vation. palmiped, palmipede (pal'mi-ped, -ped), a. and n. [F. palmipède = Pg. It. palmipede, 4249 of the foot (of a web-footed bird), + pes (ped-) = E. foot.] I. a. Web-footed, as a bird; having the toes webbed or palmate; of or pertaining to the Palmipedes. See second cut under palmate. II. n. A web-footed bird; any member of the Palmipedes . Palmiped at (pal-mip'e-dä), n. pl. [NL., irreg. neut. pl. Palmipes: see palmiped.] 1. In Blumenbach's cla ification, a singular a ociation of web-footed carnivores, edentates, rodents, sirenians, and monotremes in one order, the eighth. Thus it contained seals and walruses, otters, beavers, manatees and dugongs, and the ornithorhynchus.-2. In Illiger's cla ification (1811), a family of his Prensiculantia, containing the web-footed rodents only, as certain water-rats ( Hydromys ) and the beaver. Palmipedes (pal-mip'e-dez), n. pl. [NL., pl. of in L. palmipes, broad-footed: see palmiped.] An order founded by Schaeffer in 1774, and Cuvier's system the sixth order of birds, corresponding to the Anseres of Linnæus and the Nat a to res of Illiger; web-footed or swimming palmiped oust (pal-mip'e-dus), a. [ birds.