A creature or animal having six feet or legs, like insects and arachnids.
From 'hexa-' (six) + 'ped' (from Latin 'pes' meaning foot), a zoological term used alongside the more common 'hexapod' to describe six-legged animals.
The term 'hexaped' is actually older than 'hexapod'—naturalists in the 1600s used both forms, but hexapod eventually won out, though hexaped survived in some specialized scientific literature and remains technically correct.
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