Definitions

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  • noun bipedal humanoid

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek anthrop- "human" + pod "foot"

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Examples

  • Making things even better, right-wing members of your party who run a merc unit that handles firearms like Dick Cheney post-Lowenbrau are causing an international uproar and President Bush even found a way to regress on the evolutionary scale in his press conference from anthropod to Allen, George.

    09/21/2007 2007

  • Mite - There are over 20,000 species of mites, tiny anthropod invertebrates belonging to the class

    unknown title 2009

  • Mite - There are over 20,000 species of mites, tiny anthropod invertebrates belonging to the class

    unknown title 2009

  • The specimen discovered in the Smithsonian's collection was classified as an anthropod in the 1980s and then as an unusual specimen of the predator Anomalocaris.

    National Nine News 2009

  • Mite - There are over 20,000 species of mites, tiny anthropod invertebrates belonging to the class

    unknown title 2009

  • This isolated outbreak poses no threat to the whole region at present, but it does highlight the risk of exposure to insect and other anthropod bites in the region. "

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

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