palmipede

The system he used then was the palmipede, or web-foot, which proved unsatisfactory.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

You look for the climbing palmipede, and see nothing: nor will you see; for the quacker is a tiny green tree-frog, who holds on by the suckers at the ends of his toes (with which he can climb a pane of glass, like a fly), and has learnt the squirrel's art of going invisible, without

Prose Idylls, New and Old Charles Kingsley 1847

"If the branch of the Chelonians has given rise to birds, we can yet presume that the palmipede aquatic birds, especially the

Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work 1872