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flippered en · ADJ

Etymology

From flipper + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Having flippers.
    • But researchers have little doubt that the figure is on a downward slide, as the polar ice sheet on which the mammal depends for every stage of its life thins and retreats from beneath its flippered feet. 2008 May 20, Natalie Angier, “Ice Dwellers Are Finding Less Ice to Dwell On”, in New York Times:

Antonyms

flipperless

Deriveds

white-flippered penguin

flippered en · VERB

Etymology

From flipper + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of flipper
    form of flipper