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innerweb

noun

Etymology

From inner + web.

  1. derived from *webʰ-✻ — “to braid, weave”
  2. inherited from *webaną✻ — “to weave”
  3. inherited from *wabją✻ — “web”
  4. inherited from *wabi✻
  5. inherited from webb
  6. inherited from web
  7. compounded as innerweb — “inner + web”

Definitions

  1. (of a plumage) an inner web

    • When closed, the tail appears dark brown, as the central pair of tail feathers have no or only avery little white at the base of the innerweb (12–18mm) which is in any case obscured by the uppertail-coverts.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for innerweb. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA