Biped

//ˈbaɪpɛd// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An animal, being, or construction that goes about on two feet (or two legs).

    "This knave, […] shoes horses better than e'er a man betwixt us and Iceland; and so he gives up his practice on the bipeds, the two-legged and unfledged species, called mankind, and betakes him entirely to shoeing of horses."

  2. 2
    an animal with two feet wordnet
Adjective
  1. 1
    having two feet wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
amphibianaquaticbiaxialbicameralbicuspidbifid

Example

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"After Plato defined a human as a "featherless biped," Diogenes plucked a chicken and brought it into the Academy. "Behold," he said, "a human!""

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bipēs, bipedis. Alternatively analyzable as bi- + -ped.

Related phrases

featherless biped

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