hexapod
Americannoun
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a six-legged arthropod of the class Insecta (formerly Hexapoda); an insect.
adjective
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having six feet.
noun
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any arthropod of the class Hexapoda (or Insecta ); an insect
Other Word Forms
- hexapodous adjective
Etymology
Origin of hexapod
1660–70; < Greek hexapod- (stem of hexápous ) six-footed. See hexa-, -pod
Example Sentences
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This six-legged hexapod walking machine was thought to be the first computer-controlled walking machine designed to carry humans.
From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2023
His momentary feeling of astonishment, however, gave way to his eagerness to follow up the hexapod, and he continued burrowing like a ferret.
From Dick Sands, the Boy Captain by Frewer, Ellen E.
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.
From Dick Sands, the Boy Captain by Frewer, Ellen E.
The fat-body is therefore the seat of important metabolic processes in the hexapod body.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
Probably no hexapod, however, has more interested entomologists than Platypsyllus castoris Ritsema, a parasite of the beaver.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various
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