bipedal
pronunciation
How to pronounce bipedal in British English:
UK [ˌbaɪˈpiːdl]
How to pronounce bipedal in American English:
US [ ˌbaɪˈpiːdl,ˌbaɪˈpedl]
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- Adjective:
- having two feet
Word Origin
- bipedal (adj.)
- c. 1600, from biped + -al (1). Classical Latin bipedalis meant "two feet long or thick."
Example
- 1. Large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur having huge claws .
- 2. Development of a compliance controller to reduce energy consumption for bipedal robots .
- 3. Roboticists have struggled for decades to understand bipedal locomotion , and even today 's most sophisticated robots require huge amounts of energy and computer power to walk on two legs .
- 4. One of these gene machines , a social and bipedal ape , began to imitate .
- 5. Ostriches are descendants of dinosaurs , and the researchers liken ostrich movements to those of bipedal dinosaurs .