bipedal

[ bahy-ped-l, -pi-dl, bahy-ped-l ]

adjective

1. biped.

Other Words From

• bi·pedal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of bipedal¹

1600–10; bi- ¹ + pedal (adj.)

Example Sentences

So goes the riddle of the Sphinx, and the answer, as Oedipus discerned, is man: crawling as an infant, bipedal as an adult, walking with a cane in old age.

From New York Times

“French Girl” is a love triangle farce that’s mostly set in Quebec City but takes place on Planet Rom-com where bipedal characters act out in ways that rarely resemble human behavior.

From New York Times

"What was interesting to us was that the bipedal plant eaters were clearly the most abundant."

From Science Daily

There will be smarter cars, bipedal warehouse androids, roving grocery bots removing unscanned items from bagging areas, and torso-up AI designed to look like seated female receptionists.

From Salon

In one lineage of small bipedal dinosaurs, those feathers became more complex and then ultimately took the creatures into the air as birds.

From New York Times

Related Words

• earthly
• frail
• temporal