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pentapod

pentapod noun: an organism or machine with five legs.

Noun

pentapod (plural pentapods)

  1. An organism or machine with five legs.
    • I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t'aimais, je t'aimais!1956 December 12, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 2, page 286
    • Moreover we discuss the reality of self-motions and give a sufficient condition for the design of linear pentapods of Type 1 and Type 2, which have a self-motion free workspace.2015, Georg Nawratil, “On the line-symmetry of self-motions of linear pentapods”, in arXiv

Forms of pentapod

pluralpentapods

Origin of pentapod

From penta- + -pod.

Questions about pentapod

What does pentapod mean?
Pentapod means an organism or machine with five legs.
What part of speech is pentapod?
Pentapod is a noun.
What is the plural of pentapod?
The plural of pentapod is pentapods.

Words near pentapod in the dictionary

  1. pentaplicate
  2. pentaplicates
  3. pentaploid
  4. pentaploids
  5. pentaploidy
  6. pentapod
  7. pentapodies
  8. pentapods
  9. pentapody
  10. pentapoleis
  11. pentapolis

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