单词 | biped |
释义 | bipedn.adj. A. n. A two-footed animal. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > paw or foot > two-footed animal biped1646 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. iv. 114 Neither biped nor quadruped oviparous have any [stones] exteriorly. View more context for this quotation 1699 E. Tyson Orang-outang 91 Our Pygmie is..tho' a Biped, yet of the Quadrumanus-kind. 1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 203 Every thing does well, except those fastidious bipeds, men and women. B. adj. Having two feet; two-footed. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > foot > [adjective] > having one or two two-footedc1374 one-footed1440 bipedal1607 two-foot1620 biped1799 uniped1835 1799 R. Southey Nondescripts i, in Poet. Wks. (1838) III. 59 His drivers goad the biped beast. 1851–2 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. 1297/1 The purely biped progression of Man. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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