Usually means: Walking upright on two legs.
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  1. bipedalism: Merriam-Webster
  2. bipedalism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bipedalism: Collins English Dictionary
  4. bipedalism: Vocabulary.com
  5. bipedalism: Wordnik
  6. bipedalism: Wiktionary
  7. bipedalism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. bipedalism: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. bipedalism: Dictionary.com
  10. Bipedalism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. bipedalism: Rhymezone
  12. bipedalism: FreeDictionary.org
  13. bipedalism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. bipedalism: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. bipedalism: Encyclopedia

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  1. bipedalism: Medical dictionary

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  2. bipedalism: Evolution Glossary
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bipedalism)

▸ noun:  The habit of standing and walking on two feet; the state of being bipedal

Similar:
bipedality, bipedism, biparentality, locomotion, bipotency, biolocomotion, heterodactylism, locomobility, bioticity, bicentrism, more...

Opposite:
quadrupedalism, crawling, slithering, swimming

Phrases:
Human skeletal changes due to bipedalism, more...

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Similar:
bipedality, bipedism, biparentality, locomotion, bipotency, biolocomotion, heterodactylism, locomobility, bioticity, bicentrism, more...

Opposite:
quadrupedalism, crawling, slithering, swimming

Phrases:
Human skeletal changes due to bipedalism, more...



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