Hexapod vs Quadruped - What's the difference?
hexapod | quadruped |
Any organism or being with six legs.
* 1983 , Jean-Marc Lofficier, The Doctor Who Programme Guide , volume 2, page 8
* 2000 , Alan Dean Foster, A Triumph of Souls
* 2007 , Gaurav Suhas Sukhatme, Stefan Schaal, Wolfram Burgard (eds.), Robotics: Science and Systems II , page 97
An arthropod with six feet; a member of subphylum Hexapoda.
(dated) An insect.
Having six feet, six-footed; belonging to the subphylum Hexapoda , hexapodous.
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)- My lips will be even more firmly sealed about the various suggestions put forward concerning the interpersonal relationships of Alpha Centauri, the hermaphrodite hexapod .
- 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.
- 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