biped
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- noun
- /ˈbaɪpɛd/
- Specialized
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bípede
- Get up there, my little red biped, and take that step!
- humanoid bipeds
- human biped
- tailless bipeds
I wouldn't have ever tried to convince you that you should start a company around bipeds or something like this.
- I wouldn't have ever tried to convince you that you should start a company around bipeds or something like this.
- His antecedent was a refugee biped.
- And when the mother points, she doesn't go biped or quadruped or mammal, she, you know, she doesn't use those kinds of terms.
Examples
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Far below, the bipeds went about their usual affairs, still unaware their lives would soon change forever.
Fiction book (2000) -
Yet our visitor last night left the tracks of a biped.
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Good luck, and may the best biped win.
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There had to be some way to communicate with the bipeds below!
Fiction book (2000) -
The hatch, at least, appeared suitable for human-sized bipeds.
Fiction book (1998) -
Are we to expect any more carnivorous bipeds, Dr. Markway?
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The first to describe a truly ancient biped was the Australian-born physical anthropologist and paleontologist.
Academic text (2003) -
We were far from the Martian jungles, and it was rumored that the bipeds held forth only in their own familiar domain.
Fiction book (1996) -
As the Prime Mover jetted toward it, the long-limbed biped held its external olfactory organ closed with two fingers.
Fiction book (2000) -
The park was filled with children playing, their laughter echoing as each biped ran happily around.
Antonyms
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
biped = ped (semi-transparent) = bi + ped
The prefix 'bi-' clearly indicates 'two', but 'ped' is a combining form rather than a common standalone word, so learners may only partially infer the meaning.
Etymology
Biped comes from the Latin parts bi- 'two' and -ped 'foot', the same root you see in pedal and pedestrian. So a biped is an animal that walks on two feet as its usual way of moving.