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means An animal with six legs — the defining trait of the insect class, which keeps at least three feet planted at any moment for a stable, tripod-like gait.

from Built from Greek hex 'six' and pous/pod- 'foot' — the same pod- that gives you 'tripod' and 'octopus.' Scientists reached for it to name the taxonomic group uniting insects and their close six-legged kin, favoring tidy Greek precision over the Latin-Greek mashups that clutter so much zoological vocabulary.