hexapod
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Etymology
Origin of hexapod
1660–70; < Greek hexapod- (stem of hexápous ) six-footed. See hexa-, -pod
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This six-legged hexapod walking machine was thought to be the first computer-controlled walking machine designed to carry humans.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2023
Taken in connexion with the likeness of the young among the more generalized orders to the adults, it indicates clearly a thysanuroid starting-point for the evolution of the hexapod orders.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
There sat Benedict with what he persuaded himself was some new African hexapod perched upon his head, and agitated by doubts as to the direction in which it would move.
From Dick Sands, the Boy Captain by Frewer, Ellen E.
His momentary feeling of astonishment, however, gave way to his eagerness to follow up the hexapod, and he continued burrowing like a ferret.
From Dick Sands, the Boy Captain by Frewer, Ellen E.
Probably no hexapod, however, has more interested entomologists than Platypsyllus castoris Ritsema, a parasite of the beaver.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various
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