hexapod

1. 1.

   an animal having six feet

   Broaderanimal

Other forms of hexapod

plural

hexapods·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hexapod

What does hexapod mean?

hexapod means "an animal having six feet".

How many syllables are in hexapod?

hexapod has 3 syllables: hex-a-pod. The stress falls on "hex".

Is hexapod a common word?

hexapod is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.