pentapod

English

Etymology

From penta- +‎ -pod.

Noun

pentapod (plural pentapods)

1. An organism or machine with five legs.
   • 1956 December 12, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 2, page 286:

     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!

   • 2015, Georg Nawratil, “On the line-symmetry of self-motions of linear pentapods”, in arXiv‎:

     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.