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Six-legged creature, to an entomologist
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hexapod
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Word definitions for hexapod in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, from Greek hex "six" (see six ) + pod , from Greek pod- , stem of pous "foot" (see foot (n.)). As an adjective from 1856.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Having six feet, six-footed; belonging to the subphylum ''Hexapoda'', hexapodous. n. 1 Any organism or being with six legs. 2 An arthropod with six feet; a member of subphylum Hexapoda. 3 (context dated English) An insect.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hexapod \Hex"a*pod\, a. [Gr. ?, ?, sixfooted; "e`x six + ?, ?, foot: cf. F. hexapode.] Having six feet. -- n. (Zo["o]l.) An animal having six feet; one of the Hexapoda.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A six-legged walking robot should not be confused with a Stewart platform , a kind of parallel manipulator used in robotics applications . A hexapod robot is a mechanical vehicle that walks on six legs. Since a robot can be statically stable on three or ...
Usage examples of hexapod.
Her suppressed mirth seemed to release something in the hexapod at the same time.
Like the little hexie, the big hexapod began a subaudible rumbling she could practically feel in her bones, like sound waves so deeply bass, only the vibrations could be sensed.
The one with the broken bones had been tossed against a box by a big hexapod rearing up and using its front pair of appendages like hands to grab the woman and throw her like a rag doll.
He ran his hands over the crest of the hexapod he had named Beeswax and was rewarded with a rumbling vibration.
On the way, she was startled to see the remains of a hexapod, along with the body of its presumed human companion.
I endured storm and shipwreck only to be cast where not a hexapod is to be seen?
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.
His momentary feeling of astonishment, however, gave way to his eagerness to follow up the hexapod, and he continued burrowing like a ferret.
He watched with unflagging vigilance, and it was only when the hexapod expanded its wings as if for flight that he prepared to imprison it in the hollow of his hand.
The hexapod spun about, faster than looked possible for a creature of such bulk, and charged again.
A dozen sleep periods later, the big hexapods were turned loose and she had little chance to think of anything else for a long time.
She had seen a few skeletons of hexapods at the last place but had presumed they all perished there.
The bizarre hexapods did indeed feed upon those unfortunate creatures who had been caught and killed by the flames.
The video duly showed the hexapods, hooting, standing over a prone and writhing Keff.
These creatures were the product of long breeding, the quadrupeds and hexapods heavily haired, the big neomoas similarly well feathered.