biped
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And before you ask, the movie offers no explanation why a bionic biped would bother shape-shifting into another bionic biped.
From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2023
When anthropologists uncovered five of its fossilized footprints nearly 50 years ago, they couldn’t say whether this ancient biped was a hominin, a bear, or some other ape.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 1, 2021
The end-result is that the bot can not only hop and walk but skateboard and slackline, skills that are beyond the remit of this particular biped.
From The Verge • Oct. 12, 2021
The cartoon version of evolution, in which a hunched ape becomes a tall and jaunty biped, suggests a journey with a destination.
From Washington Post • Apr. 10, 2019
“I was telling the boy that according to Plato, man is delined,” he said, smiling affably and gesturing to the cart, “as a featherless biped with broad nails, receptive of political philosophy.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing biped
Animals (Zoology) - Introductory
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