outerweb

noun

Etymology

From outer + 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 outerweb — “outer + web”

Definitions

  1. (of a plumage) an outer web

    • Tail brown (except for central and outermost feathers) tipped broadly with white, outermost feathers white with brown outerweb.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for outerweb. 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