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biped

  • /ˈbaɪpɛd/

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

noun bipeds

  1. An animal, being, or construction that goes about on two feet (or two legs). This knave, […] shoes horses better than e'er a man betwixt us and Iceland; and so he gives up his practice on the bipeds, the two-legged and unfledged species, called mankind, and betakes him entirely to shoeing of horses.

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noun a two-footed (or two-legged) animal

Españolbípedo
Françaisbipède
DeutschZweifüßer, Zweifüßerin, Zweifüßler, Zweifüßlerin, Zweibeiner, Zweibeinerin
Русскийдвуно́гий dvunógij

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"biped." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/biped. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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"biped." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/biped.

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@misc{biped_2026,
  title = {biped},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/biped},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}