Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous six-legged arthropods of the subphylum Hexapoda, which includes the insects and several groups formerly classified as insects, such as the springtails.
- adjective Of or belonging to the subphylum Hexapoda.
- adjective Having six legs or feet.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having six feet, as any adult true insect; specifically, pertaining to or having the characters of the Hexapoda; hexapodous.
- noun One of the Hexapoda; a true six-footed insect.
- noun Also hexapode, hexapodan.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having six feet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any organism or being with six
legs . - noun An
arthropod withsix feet ; a member ofsubphylum Hexapoda . - noun dated An
insect . - adjective Having six
feet , six-footed; belonging to the subphylumHexapoda ,hexapodous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an animal having six feet
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The expenses incurred keeping one fed, content, and from repairing the inevitable property damage that would come with owning a Titanothere simply would not be worth the ambivalent tolerance of this grumpy hexapod.
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After studying the springtail's primitive anatomy in detail, many scientists now consider the creatures to be a special kind of hexapod.
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The expenses incurred keeping one fed, content, and from repairing the inevitable property damage that would come with owning a Titanothere simply would not be worth the ambivalent tolerance of this grumpy hexapod.
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A-Pod is an ant inspired hexapod robot with a 2 DOF abdomen tail, a 3 DOF head with large mandibles. 6 legs with 3 DOF each.
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This is what did researchers from Japan and U.K. who built an interface between a plant and an omnidirectional hexapod robot.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Plant cells for robot control 2006
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If you know of a cooler hexapod robot, I need to know immediately.
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This hexapod (six-legged) insect is a bee in the subfamily Xylocoinae of either the genus Ceratina or Xylocopa that makes its nest in wood or plant stems.
Carpenter bee 2008
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If you know of a cooler hexapod robot, I need to know immediately.
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This is what did researchers from Japan and U.K. who built an interface between a plant and an omnidirectional hexapod robot.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Plant cells for robot control 2006
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Zauner's team decided to harness this simple control mechanism to direct a small six-legged hexapod walking bot.
Archive 2006-02-01 Mac 2006
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