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pedaneous

pedaneous adjective: going on foot; pedestrian.

Adjective

pedaneous (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Going on foot; pedestrian.
    • After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a...1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 28

Origin of pedaneous

Latin pedaneus (“of the size of a foot”).

Questions about pedaneous

What does pedaneous mean?
Pedaneous means going on foot; pedestrian.
What part of speech is pedaneous?
Pedaneous is an adjective.

Words near pedaneous in the dictionary

  1. pedalos
  2. pedals
  3. pedals to the metal
  4. pedancy
  5. pedanda
  6. pedaneous
  7. pedant
  8. pedanted
  9. pedantess
  10. pedantesses
  11. pedantic

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