Two-legged

//tuːˈlɛɡɪd// adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone or something with two legs, especially human beings.

    "The four-leggeds blamed the cleansing on the humans, and decided to destroy all two-leggeds."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having or furnished with two legs, or leg-like appendages. not-comparable

    "two-legged animals    two-legged shears"

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bipedal

Example

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"Plato having defined man to be a two-legged animal without feathers, Diogenes plucked a cock and brought it into the Academy, and said, "This is Plato’s man." On which account this addition was made to the definition,—"With broad flat nails.""

Etymology

From two + legged.

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