holly-footed

Updated: May 23, 2025

Land and water were then distinguishable, but as yet there was no terrestrial animal, nothing organic but radiata and molluscs, holly-footed and head-footed, and other aquatic monstrosities, mailed, plated, and buckler-headed, casting the shovel-nosed shark of the present Cosmos entirely into the shade, in point of horned, toothed, and serrated horrors.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859