biped

 

Borrowed from Latin bipēs, bipedis. Alternatively analyzable as bi- +‎ -ped.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪpɛd/

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biped (plural bipeds)

1. An animal, being, or construction that goes about on two feet (or two legs).
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 89:

     He was badgered in that witness-box for an hour. By a distracting repetition of cross-examination he was forced to confess that he had seen and spoken to a human biped in broad daylight, yet could not recollect one singularity to distinguish this phantom from the flat mass of humanity.

   • 2019 April 10, qntm, “CASE HATE RED”, in SCP Foundation‎^[1], archived from the original on 29 May 2024:

     Luján, or, rather, the biped which used to be Luján, walks right up to him. He is a little shorter than Wheeler, but much heavier-set. Rooted to the spot, not thinking clearly, Wheeler holds his violin up, as if this will shield him. The conductor takes the instrument from his unresisting hands and breaks its neck underfoot, perfunctorily, as if crushing a box for recycling.

• bipod
• quadruped

• bedip

Borrowed from French bipède, from Latin bipes.

biped m or n (feminine singular bipedă, masculine plural bipezi, feminine and neuter plural bipede)

1. biped