- hexapod (n.)
- "six-footed insect," 1660s, from Modern Latin hexapod-, stem of hexapodus, from Greek hex "six" (see six) + Greek pod-, stem of pous "foot," from PIE root *ped- (1) "a foot" (see foot (n.)). Greek hexapous (adj.) was used only with reference to poetic meter. As an adjective from 1856.
