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biped

/ˈbaɪpɛd/

biped noun: an animal, being, or construction that goes about on two feet (or two legs).

biped: an animal, being, or construction that goes about on two feet (or two legs)
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Noun

biped (plural 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.1821 January 8, [Walter Scott], chapter IX, in Kenilworth; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, […]; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC...
    • He was badgered in that witness-box for an hour. By a distracting repetition of cross-examination he was forced to confess that he had seen and spoken to a human biped in broad daylight, yet could not recollect one singularity to distinguish this phantom from the flat mass of humanity.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 89

biped meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Kannada and Sanskrit

biped in Tamil

இரட்டைக் காலி, இருகால் உயிரி, இருகாலி

biped in Bengali

দ্বিপদী প্রাণী, দুই পা বিশিষ্ট প্রাণী

biped in Kannada

ಇಕ್ಕಾಲುಗ, ದ್ವಿಪಾದಿ, ಎರಡು ಕಾಲಿನ ಪ್ರಾಣಿ

biped in Sanskrit

a biped; human
द्विपद dvipada
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biped in Indonesian
biped
biped in Persian
دوپا dopā

Forms of biped

pluralbipeds

Origin of biped

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

Words formed from biped

Questions about biped

What does biped mean?
Biped means an animal, being, or construction that goes about on two feet (or two legs).
What is biped in Tamil?
Biped in Tamil is இரட்டைக் காலி, இருகால் உயிரி, இருகாலி. See Biped meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is biped?
Biped is a noun.
How do you pronounce biped?
Biped is pronounced /ˈbaɪpɛd/.
What is the plural of biped?
The plural of biped is bipeds.

Words near biped in the dictionary

  1. bipaschal
  2. Bipasha
  3. bipaternal
  4. bipectinate
  5. bipectinated
  6. biped
  7. bipedal
  8. bipedalism
  9. bipedality
  10. bipedally
  11. bipedicle

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: biped (page history and authors); biped (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); biped (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); biped (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); द्विपद (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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