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biped

noun
/ˈbaɪpɛd/

Etymology

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

  1. borrowed from bipēs

Definitions

  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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at biped. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at biped. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at biped

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA