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Hexapod vs Quadruped - What's the difference?

hexapod | quadruped |

As nouns the difference between hexapod and quadruped

is that hexapod is any organism or being with six legs while quadruped is a four-footed or four-legged animal.

As an adjective hexapod

is having six feet, six-footed; belonging to the subphylum hexapoda , hexapodous.

hexapod

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any organism or being with six legs.
  • * 1983 , Jean-Marc Lofficier, The Doctor Who Programme Guide , volume 2, page 8
  • My lips will be even more firmly sealed about the various suggestions put forward concerning the interpersonal relationships of Alpha Centauri, the hermaphrodite hexapod .
  • * 2000 , Alan Dean Foster, A Triumph of Souls
  • The bizarre hexapods did indeed feed upon those unfortunate creatures who had been caught and killed by the flames. But the striped carnivores were not scavengers; They were hunters.
  • * 2007 , Gaurav Suhas Sukhatme, Stefan Schaal, Wolfram Burgard (eds.), Robotics: Science and Systems II , page 97
  • These concepts are applied to a robotic hexapod , which, through the use of compliant microspines on its feet, is capable of climbing hard vertical textured surfaces, such as stucco
  • An arthropod with six feet; a member of subphylum Hexapoda.
  • (dated) An insect.
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • Having six feet, six-footed; belonging to the subphylum Hexapoda , hexapodous.
  • quadruped

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a four-footed or four-legged animal
  • a mammal ambulating on all fours
  • Derived terms

    * quadrupedal

    See also

    * biped * tetrapod * Tetrapoda