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hexapod

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Scrabble points
20
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20
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈhɛk.sə.pɒd/ (UK)
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/ˈhɛk.sə.pɒd/ (UK) · /ˈhɛk.sə.pɑd/ (US)

Definition of hexapod

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. Any organism, being or robot with six legs.
    “My lips will be even more firmly sealed about the various suggestions put forward concerning the interpersonal relationships of Alpha Centauri, the hermaphrodite hexapod.”
    “The bizarre hexapods did indeed feed upon those unfortunate creatures who had been caught and killed by the flames. But the striped carnivores were not scavengers; They were hunters.”
    “These concepts are applied to a robotic hexapod, which, through the use of compliant microspines on its feet, is capable of climbing hard vertical textured surfaces, such as stucco”
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noun

  1. Any organism, being or robot with six legs.
    “My lips will be even more firmly sealed about the various suggestions put forward concerning the interpersonal relationships of Alpha Centauri, the hermaphrodite hexapod.”
    “The bizarre hexapods did indeed feed upon those unfortunate creatures who had been caught and killed by the flames. But the striped carnivores were not scavengers; They were hunters.”
    “These concepts are applied to a robotic hexapod, which, through the use of compliant microspines on its feet, is capable of climbing hard vertical textured surfaces, such as stucco”
  2. An arthropod with six feet; a member of subphylum Hexapoda.
  3. (dated)An insect.

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Having six feet, six-footed; belonging to the subphylum Hexapoda; hexapodous.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From hexa- + -pod, from Ancient Greek ἑξαποδ- (hexapod-), oblique stem of ἑξάπους (hexápous, “six-footed”), from ἑξα- (hexa-, “six”) + πούς (poús, “foot”).

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