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bipedal

[ UK /ba‍ɪpˈiːdə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having two feet

How To Use bipedal In A Sentence

  • Leah then re-entered again bipedally and grabbed the straight branch in front of her with her right hand. 2009 January | Netflow Developments
  • Apparently facultatively bipedal, with a toothless bird-like skull sporting large orbits, dinosaur-like cervical vertebrae possessing true pneumatic foramina, and reduced gracile forelimbs and a theropod-like pelvis, Effigia is strikingly like ornithomimosaurs (ostrich dinosaurs) in several details, mostly those concerning the skull and cervical vertebrae. Archive 2006-01-01
  • This form developed bipedalism and other adaptations to the newly opening arid savannah landscape and eventually became the ancestor of man.
  • An opposing camp argues that bipedalism is simply the most energy-efficient way for a hominid to get around on a flat surface.
  • A patrol of bipedal Inorganics moved past the alley where the scientist and his assistant waited.
  • Some will come as a surprise, like the early small-brained bipedal hominids.
  • If God is a product of evolution, like bipedalism and tool making, well, the jig's up and not just for evangelicals. Pete Enns: Once More, With Feeling: Adam, Evolution And Evangelicals
  • Thus, bipedality of terrestrial theropods and birds must be convergent, and all hindlimb, pelvis, and tail characters can be discounted.
  • bipedalism made the human form of birth possible
  • But bipedalism in birds is a highly specialized form of bipedal motion; the large tails of birds' ancestors, which in crocodilians still anchor the leg muscles, have mostly vanished in birds.
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