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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as hexapodous.

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Examples

  • Like, say, hexapodal vertebrates liberating the forelimbs to grow hands and becoming centauroids, as on Woden.

    The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978

  • The idea in the movie is that Pandora includes a lineage of primate-like animals whose evolution has closely paralleled primate evolution on Earth: early on in the movie, we see the hexapodal, aboreal Prolemuris.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • The Thanator - a large hexapodal terrestrial predator - was pretty cool in my opinion, though I can kind of agree with those who think that it was too much like an 'alien big cat'.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • So do these hexapodal 'bots, but they've got six legs to work with.

    TrekMovie.com 2008

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