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Definition of Hindfeet
1. hindfoot [n] - See also: hindfoot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hindfeet
Literary usage of Hindfeet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts & Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Yale University (1911)
"V' reduction is carried further by the total elimination of the hindlegs and
hindfeet. The one essential feature of the armadillo is the carapace. ..."
2. Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch (1804)
"... with their forefeet, but, at the fame time they flood firm upon their hindfeet.
... on the:r hindfeet, or drained to fet their forefeet on the ground; ..."
3. Our Arctic Province, Alaska and the Seal Islands by Henry Wood Elliott (1906)
"Great Eastern rookery, I have not been able to satisfy myself how they used their
long, flexible hindfeet, other than as steering media. ..."
4. The Life of Animals: The Mammals by Ernest Ingersoll (1907)
"The kudu had taken a flying leap over this bush, and the distance between the
spoor of her hindfeet, where she took off, and the edge of the bush, ..."
5. The Ain i Akbari by Abū al-Faz̤l ibn Mubārak, Henry Blochmann, Henry Sullivan Jarrett (1873)
"... is a fetter for the hindfeet, an invention of His Majesty. It allows the
elephant to walk, but prevents him from running. 5. ..."
6. Our Animal Friends: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1896)
"If the forefeet alone are diseased the poor creature will walk and graze upon
its knees ; if the hindfeet, it will drag itself along on its abdomen with the ..."
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