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Imped

//ˈɪmpɛd// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Engrafted, eked, implanted; supplemented by imping. especially, not-comparable
Noun
  1. 1
    a creature without feet

    "Aristotle had divided the group into bipeds, quadrupeds and impeds."

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of imp form-of, participle, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

Coined on Latinate roots (im- + -ped) by Richard Owen in 1861 as a calque of Aristotle’s Ancient Greek ἀπούς (apoús).

Etymology 2

From imp + -ed.

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