单词 | sexiped |
释义 | > as lemmassexiped sexiped n. Brit. /ˈsɛksᵻpɛd/ , U.S. /ˈsɛksəˌpɛd/ (also sexipede) now rare an animal with six legs or feet; also attributive; cf. hexaped n. 2.Not in technical use: cf. hexapod n.ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > paw or foot > animal with six feet sexiped1818 1818 Amer. Monthly Mag. & Crit. Rev. 3 139/1 Here is a foot race. See the youthful look Of that, prepared to start: he has six legs... The sexiped is distanced. 1847 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 61 756 The delicate monsters, the savoury sexipedes, with whom Typee and his comrades had to wage incessant war. 1889 H. MacColl Mr. Stranger's Sealed Packet v All the creatures..were quadrupeds; there were no quintipeds, sexipeds, or anything of that sort among them. 1909 G. Burgess Lady Méchante iii. vii. 209 We are higher beings than quadrupeds, and the quadrupeds higher than sexiped insects. < as lemmas |
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