bird's foot

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bird's foot - the foot of a bird

bird - warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings

animal foot, foot - the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings

claw - a bird's foot

zygodactyl foot - a bird's foot having the first and fourth toes of each foot directed backward and the second and third forward

heterodactyl foot - a bird's foot having the first and second toes of each foot directed backward and the third and fourth forward

webbed foot - a bird's foot with folds of skin between the toes

lobate foot - a bird's foot having separate toes each with membranous flaps along the sides

talon - a sharp hooked claw especially on a bird of prey

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For example, we find out that a bird's knees are actually tucked under its feathers, and what we see that looks like a backwards knee is actually a part of the bird's foot that doesn't touch the ground, because birds walk on their toes

Choiniere, Joseph & Golding, Claire Mowbray. What's That Bird?: ... by Cooper, Rhonda / Kliatt

Rogan is a canny observer of serendipitous urban tableaux: the dusty imprints of a soccer ball kicked repeatedly against a wooden fence; the paired impressions of the sole of a work boot and a bird's foot set in recently laid concrete; the sooty belch of a bus's exhaust on a city street.

Best of 2002: over the next twenty-two pages, eleven artforum ... by Liebmann, Lisa / Artforum International

This strong visual metaphor invites the reader to imagine the wood to be not simply tied in the shape of crow's feet, but actually transformed into a bird's foot.

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