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Tripedal

Tripedal \Trip"e*dal\, a. [L. tripedalis; tri- (see Tri-) + pes, pedis, a foot.] Having three feet.

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tripedal

a. Having three foot.

Usage examples of "tripedal".

Ten hundred hours Mavis had said, and he was determined that the pads of his tripedal landing gear would touch the turf of the Oval at precisely that time.

I glimpsed it only momentarily, but its odd gait reminded me of the story of tripedal footprints.

The parked skiffs glowed orange in the early light, their spindly legs and lenticular bodies casting long shadows out over the water like tall, striding tripedal machines.

It reminded Norton of nothing so much as a three-legged spider, or daddy-long-legs, and he wondered how it had solved the problemnever challenged by any creature on Earthof tripedal locomotion.

At first he thought it must be some Rigelian tripedal, but then he saw it was an Earth cat lacking a leg.

Then there came the sound of boots on the floor above, and the cat bounded away, humping its hind quarters quite like a tripedal, and the vision quickly faded.

It stomped past them on swinging tripedal legs, kicking stray stones and gobbets of metal out of its way.

They dropped another level into a ward in which four MSVKsfragile, tripedal stork like beingsdrifted lifeless among loose items of ward equipment.

He turned up the audio-input, and Rod listened to the growl of the rockets as the launch nosed vertically upward and settled on its tripedal tail.

The droidekas were even more impressive, rolling forward out of their crates and unfolding into their tripedal battle stances.

The GUI of the Logosphere represented each shell as a single black dot on the gray sand, and the tripedal mytes as clumps of dots.

Klarten, a multitentacled, tripedal creature from a globular cluster at the edge of the Milky Way, had a different theory.

On his other flank it was dwarfed by a set of pistons and hydraulics strung together into the skeleton of a tripedal dinosaur, tailless, but sprouting five hydraheads, each mounted with a different type of geological drill.

The parked skiffs glowed orange in the early light, their spindly legs and lenticular bodies casting long shadows out over the water like tall, striding tripedal machines.