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biped

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1. biped - Noun

2. biped - Adjective

Meaning

A two-footed animal, as man.

Having two feet; two-footed.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, "Behold Plato's man!" Diogenes of Sinope

My name is Patrick, and I'm a biped carbon-based life form. In my spare time I enjoy walking upright and being warm-blooded, and I'm a Scorpio.* I live here ... on planet Earth, a piece of rock orbiting a giant fireball in the middle of nowhere. I feel I belong here. Pat Condell

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet. Diane Ackerman

Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased. Charles Dickens

An animal or machine that usually moves in a bipedal manner is known as a biped main, meaning "two feet" (from the Latin bis for "double" and pes for "foot"). Source: Internet

“Her salient characteristic was a contempt for the male sex as represented in the human biped …. Source: Internet

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