tripedal

Many adult insects use six legs for walking and have adopted a tripedal gait.

'Still thinking of trying to convince your tripedal pals you're all on the same side?'

With proper medical treatment most of these injured animals can go on to live fairly normal lives, despite being artificially tripedal.

The purest form of the tripedal gait is seen in insects moving at high speeds.

Of the three as they drew closer, Crow found the tripedal Runner the most fantastic.

Instead of heavy tripedal legs, they bore three large, ribbed, triangular fins on their lower bodies.

She noted unipedal, tripedal, quadrapedal and polypedal forms of locomotion.

A shock trooper, weapon in hand, was attempting to gain access to a building, his way blocked by a tripedal Turing android.

In this sense (and probably in this stance only) it was tripedal, with the tail acting as an additional balancing limb.

Klarten, a multitentacled, tripedal creature from a globular cluster at the edge of the Milky Way, had a different theory.

It stomped past them on swinging tripedal legs, kicking stray stones and gobbets of metal out of its way.

Tann: Tripedal humanoids from a feudalistic matriarchal theocratic monarchy led by their Queen.

In the next instant, the shock trooper employed his anti-positronic disruptor, wreathing the tripedal android in blue energy.

Doctor Yeppha was a new life-form to her experience, a small, tripedal, fragile being that she classified as DRVJ.

The arboreal machine mutation moved noisily through the upper reaches of the forest canopy, a tripedal, ashen-whorled form leaping erratically from branch to high branch.

As it allows for rapid yet stable movement, many insects adopt a tripedal gait in which they walk with their legs touching the ground in alternating triangles.

Aliens are sweet big and little green, pink, and blue tripedal beings that Pocoyo finds in space in search of his toy plane and other adventures.

The three-legged (or tripedal) crow is a creature found in various mythologies and arts of Asia, Asia Minor, and North Africa.

The Tripods, a trilogy of novels written by John Christopher, is a post-apocalyptic story set one hundred years after the invasion of Earth by tripedal aliens.

In a 2005 presentation of the PC Game Spore, Will Wright made a tripedal race of aliens, now known to fans as the Willosaur.

In Iain M. Banks' 1987 novel Consider Phlebas, several of the major alien species are tripedal, the Idirans and the Homomdans, amongst others.

Also, it is interesting to note there are a lot of bipedal, sentient, alien species in the game who have three arms, which may have evolved from a tripedal three legs.

As if saving the best for last, the tripedal Mr. Hoyle, an extra leg having descended from his raincoat, glides across the set on all threes, in a conclusion of acrobatic, ballroom bliss.

In the Rama series of novels by Arthur C. Clarke, humans come into contact with a number of extraterrestrial space habitats populated by many forms of life based on a tripedal theme.