bipedal

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Chemists at New York University and Harvard University have created a bipedal, autonomous DNA "walker" that can mimic a cell's transportation system.

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  1. Of or pertaining to a biped; having or walking upon two feet. The erect or bipedal mode of progression. E. D. Cope, Origin of the Fittest, p. 335.
  2. Measuring two feet in length.

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  • Descending human stairs should have been difficult for a bipedal creature only forty centimeters tall, but he flew down them with ease. —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 02 - August 2002
  • Gargoyles were primarily bipedal, but when they were young, their wings unbalanced them, tiny as the appendages still were, and so they crawled like human children. —  Yasmine Galenorn - [Sisters of the Moon 2] - Changeling
  • Medium-sized, bipedal, bright dinosaurs with hands might have succeeded if they'd become live-bearing. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 01 - July 1996
  • He was dark and thick, with reptilian hide, and looked like a bipedal gecko with fangs curving out of his mouth like warthog tusks. —  Yasmine Galenorn - [Sisters of the Moon 1] - Witchling
  • They were bipedal, with arms and legs, but had no ears, no noses, and no mouths. —  Dan Simmons - Hockenberry 1 - Ilium
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  1. from Latin bipedalis, measuring two feet, from bi-, two-, + pes (ped-), foot. Cf. biped.
 

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