ped-, pedi-, -pedal, -ped, -pede, -pedia +
(Latin: foot, feet)
pinniped
1. Having feet resembling fins, fin-footed; specifically, belonging to a suborder (Pinnipedia) of Carnivora, comprising the seals and walruses, which have fin-like limbs or flippers; also, belonging to other divisions of animals having limbs or organs resembling fins and adapted for swimming, e.g. the fin-footed or lobe-footed birds, certain decapod crustaceans or crabs, the pteropod molluscs, etc.
2. A pinniped mammal; a seal or walrus.
2. A pinniped mammal; a seal or walrus.
1. A person or group that is the first to do something or that leads in developing something new.
2. A person who is one of the first from another country or region to explore or settle a new area.
3. A foot soldier whose duties include going ahead of the main company to construct things to pave the way for them.
4. The first species of plant or animal life to begin living in a previously unoccupied site; for example, a moss beginning to grow on otherwise bare rock.
5. Etymology: from 1523, "foot soldier who prepares the way for the army", from Middle French pionnier, from Old French paonier, "foot soldier" from about the 11th century from peon; from Medieval Latin pedo, pedon-, "foot soldier"; from Latin pes-, ped-, "foot".
2. A person who is one of the first from another country or region to explore or settle a new area.
3. A foot soldier whose duties include going ahead of the main company to construct things to pave the way for them.
4. The first species of plant or animal life to begin living in a previously unoccupied site; for example, a moss beginning to grow on otherwise bare rock.
5. Etymology: from 1523, "foot soldier who prepares the way for the army", from Middle French pionnier, from Old French paonier, "foot soldier" from about the 11th century from peon; from Medieval Latin pedo, pedon-, "foot soldier"; from Latin pes-, ped-, "foot".
pleuropedal
plumiped
1. A bird with feathered feet.
2. Having feet covered with feathers.
2. Having feet covered with feathers.
podalgia, pedionalgia, pedioneuralgia
1. Pain in one foot or both feet. Such foot pains may be a result of gout or rheumtism, among other causes.
2. Pain in the sole of a foot or both feet; also, pododynia, tarsalgia.
2. Pain in the sole of a foot or both feet; also, pododynia, tarsalgia.
podomancy, pedoscopy
Divination (fortune telling) from the interpretations of signs derived by examining the feet.
polyped
Any creature that has many feet; many footed.
quadruped
1. An animal that has four feet. Usually a reference to mammals, and excluding four-footed reptiles.
2. Belonging to, connected with, or appropriate to four-footed animals.
2. Belonging to, connected with, or appropriate to four-footed animals.
quadrupedal
1. Of animals, four-footed; using all four feet for walking or running.
2. Sometimes a reference to a person: on hands and knees.
2. Sometimes a reference to a person: on hands and knees.
remiped
Having feet that are oar-shaped, or used as oars for swimming (a reference to certain insects).
scopiped, scopuliped
Any species of bee which has on the hind legs a brush of hairs used for collecting pollen; such as, the hive bees and bumblebees
septipedalian
sesquipedal
A thing a foot and a half in length.
sesquipedalia
A reference to a foot and half in length or to very long words.
sesquipedalian
1. Of words and expressions (after Horace’s sesquipedalia verba, “words a foot and a half long”); of many syllables.
2. A word with many letters or syllables.
3. A description of a person who is overly given to using long words; especially when verbal construction utilizing less amplification might represent a more naturally efficacious phraseology.
4. A person or thing that is a foot and a half in height or length.
2. A word with many letters or syllables.
3. A description of a person who is overly given to using long words; especially when verbal construction utilizing less amplification might represent a more naturally efficacious phraseology.
4. A person or thing that is a foot and a half in height or length.
