TOED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does toed mean? 

• TOED (adjective)
  The adjective TOED has 1 sense:

1. having a toe or toes of a specified kind; often used in combination

  Familiarity information: TOED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a toe or toes of a specified kind; often used in combination

Context example:

five-toed

Similar:

pointed-toe; pointy-toed (having a pointed toe)

square-toed; squared-toe (having a square toe)

two-toe; two-toed (having two toes)

Antonym:

toeless (lacking a toe or toes)

 Context examples 

An enormous three-toed track was imprinted in the soft mud before us.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The scientists measured the daily energy expenditure of both two- and three-toed sloths, animals that co-exist in the tropical forest canopies of Central and South America.

(Putting the sloth in sloths: Arboreal lifestyle drives slow pace, NSF)

The taxonomic order of mammals that includes odd-toed ungulates such as horses, zebras, tapirs, and rhinoceroses.

(Perissodactyla, NCI Thesaurus)

The taxonomic order of mammals that includes even-toed ungulates such as pigs, cows, goats and sheep.

(Artiodactyla, NCI Thesaurus)

Just now it's the fashion to be hideous, to make your head look like a scrubbing brush, wear a strait jacket, orange gloves, and clumping square-toed boots.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

When I tell you that his shoes were square-toed instead of being pointed like Blessington’s, and were quite an inch and a third longer than the doctor’s, you will acknowledge that there can be no doubt as to his individuality.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In addition to the fox, the team also discovered extinct species of a wooly rhino (Coelodonta thibetana), three-toed horse (Hipparion), Tibetan bharal (Pseudois, known as blue sheep), chiru (Pantholops, known as Tibetan antelope), snow leopard (Uncia), badger (Meles), and 23 other mammals.

("Out of Tibet" hypothesis: Cradle of evolution for cold-adapted mammals is in Tibet, NSF)

Instead of the gentle, deer-shaped head of the great three-toed leaf-eater, this beast had a broad, squat, toad-like face like that which had alarmed us in our camp.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Astonishingly, three-toed sloths, which are more specialized to their environment, expend as little as 460 kilojoules of energy a day, the equivalent of burning a mere 110 calories — roughly the same number of calories in a baked potato.

(Putting the sloth in sloths: Arboreal lifestyle drives slow pace, NSF)

All five were sitting up, balancing themselves upon their broad, powerful tails and their huge three-toed hind-feet, while with their small five-fingered front-feet they pulled down the branches upon which they browsed.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)