biped

[ bahy-ped ]

/ ˈbaɪ pɛd /

Zoology

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noun

a two-footed animal.

adjective

having two feet.

Nearby words

Origin of biped

1640–50; < Latin biped- (stem of bipēs) two-footed. See bi-¹, -ped

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Examples from the Web for biped

They were elephants, of course, and had been tutored by two biped Russian artists, Alex Melamid and Vitaly Komar.
The Secret Language of Elephants|Bob Simon|December 31, 2009|DAILY BEAST
The inevitableness of Home Rule resides in the fact that it is, as one might say, a biped among ideas.
The Open Secret of Ireland|T. M. Kettle
The serenade, if not the banquet, was in honor of the whole party, biped and quadruped.
On a Donkey's Hurricane Deck|R. Pitcher Woodward
He knew that Those Others were biped, quasi-human in form, closer in physical appearance to the colonists than to the mermen.
Star Born|Andre Norton

Biped is a genus with reference to man and bird, but a species with respect to the superior genus, animal.
A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive|John Stuart Mill
Nothing was being done on the farm but what common care for the living, biped and quadruped, rendered necessary.
The Making of William Edwards|Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks

British Dictionary definitions for biped

biped

/ (ˈbaɪpɛd) /

noun

any animal with two feet

adjective Also: bipedal (baɪˈpiːdəl, -ˈpɛdəl)

having two feet

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Word Origin and History for biped

biped

"animal with two feet," 1640s, from Latin bipedem (nominative bipes) "two-footed," as a plural noun, "men;" from bi- "two" (see bi-) + pedem (nominative pes) "foot" (see foot (n.)).

Science definitions for biped