Meanings
nounpentapod (plural pentapods)
plural pentapods
- An organism or machine with five legs.
I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t'aimais, je t'aimais!
1955 September 15, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Paris: The Olympia Press […], →OCLC, page 2861 more example
Moreover we discuss the reality of self-motions and give a sufficient condition for the design of linear pentapods of Type 1 and Type 2, which have a self-motion free workspace.
2015, Georg Nawratil, “On the line-symmetry of self-motions of linear pentapods”, in arXiv
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*pénkʷe
- Proto-Hellenic*pénkʷe
- Ancient Greekπέντε (pénte)
- Ancient Greekπεντᾰ- (pentă-)
- Englishpenta-
- Englishpentapod
Translations
French pentapode
- pentapodeTranslations
Cite this entry
APA
pentapod. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pentapod
MLA
“pentapod.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pentapod. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pentapod,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pentapod.
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