different between biped vs hindquarter

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bip?s, bipedis. Alternatively analyzable as bi- +? -ped.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba?p?d/

Noun

biped (plural bipeds)

1. An animal, being or construction that goes about on two feet (or two legs).

Derived terms

• bipedal
• featherless biped

Translations

See also

• bipod
• quadruped

Anagrams

• bedip

Romanian

Etymology

From French bipède, from Latin bipes.

Adjective

biped m or n (feminine singular biped?, masculine plural bipezi, feminine and neuter plural bipede)

1. biped

Declension

English

Etymology

hind +? quarter

Noun

hindquarter (plural hindquarters)

1. Either rear half of a side of beef, mutton, veal, lamb or by extension from another edible mammal.
2. (in the plural) The hind biped (leg) of a quadruped, or all body parts situated behind the hind legs' trunk-attachment.

   • While Major was speaking four large rats had crept out of their holes and were sitting on their hindquarters, listening to him.

3. (metonymically, derogatory, usually in the plural) Human behind, butt.

Translations

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967