A featherless biped. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
What rascal was it who said that man was a featherless biped?. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
Humans, too, are animals -- featherless bipeds, as Plato said. From Wordnik.com. [U.K. Pets Get 'Freedoms'] Reference
Because of their ill-judged moulting they are quite featherless. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER XXXVI] Reference
They had large mouths and panting sides and tiny featherless bodies. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of Birds] Reference
When blogging, we already know that most bloggers are featherless bipeds. From Wordnik.com. [Behe: ID rescues Common Descent] Reference
Humans don't cease being noble because they happen to be featherless bipeds. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Matter Can Enlighten Minds] Reference
He is the mere outline of a man -- the "featherless biped" of the philosopher. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
FOOD: Mosquitoes and moths, diced fruit, featherless lizard chickens, frozen mice. From Wordnik.com. [Going Mutant] Reference
See into what wonderful maudlin refuges, featherless ostriches plunge their heads!. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mutual Friend] Reference
Ariel Sharon plucked his feathers and then sneered at him as "a featherless chicken". From Wordnik.com. [Crocodile Tears for Gaza] Reference
(Says Bubba who knows nothing about chickens except that they taste better featherless). From Wordnik.com. [shipping artichokes] Reference
This, said his hands like mouths, was a day for the rabbit young and the featherless old. From Wordnik.com. [The Machineries of Joy]
That maybe that bird had some "flammable gas incident" that left him featherless and charred. From Wordnik.com. [Turkeys] Reference
His featherless slouch hat was drawn low over his heavy brows, shadowing his darkly pallid face. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon of Skulls]
Diogenes famously joked that if humans are a featherless biped, then a plucked chicken is human. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Kathryn Jean-Lopez and Rush Limbaugh Are Not Very Intelligent] Reference
Thus, ˜man™ is defined as ˜featherless biped™ or ˜rational animal™, and it would seem that. From Wordnik.com. [Substance] Reference
The crow looked like someone had tried to drown it, then had decided to pluck it featherless instead. From Wordnik.com. [Soldiers Live]
"Somehow it didn't surprise Elspeth to hear Treyvan call her that, as he called Darkwind" featherless son. From Wordnik.com. [Widows and Orphans] Reference
But what geneticists have not developed, insists Sang, is the featherless chicken, illustrated on the right. From Wordnik.com. [Genetic modification: glow-in-the-dark lifesavers or mutant freaks?] Reference
Reich leaped to his feet, bow ready, a featherless arrow at half-cock, and peered intently into the darkness. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Dreams of Reality, 5] Reference
The others just flapped a few paces before settling again, darting featherless heads and squawking challenges. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of Chaos]
Of course there's a beard on old toms, their heads are featherless whereas a hen's head has feathers up the back. From Wordnik.com. [QUIZ...] Reference
A few actually coiled defensively, in preparation, in fear, of being attacked by the giant featherless bi-ped, me. From Wordnik.com. [Pa^2 Patois] Reference
Wonder if he wishes he had a gig where he didn't have to lay eggs like some featherless chicken in this fetid cage. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary: "I Will Be Making No Decisions Tonight"] Reference
He was falling backward, his arms flailing, the featherless and useless wings of a baby bird pushed out of the nest. From Wordnik.com. [The Narrows]
She had the round, bright eyes of a bird, and her scapulae were prominent beneath her blouse like featherless, folded wings. From Wordnik.com. [LIGHT FINGERS] Reference
Now the enormous black bird perched on the nar'row bridge, turning its dirty, featherless head to regard him curiously, eagerly. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Queen]
Finger-lickin 'chicken-pluckers are up in arms at this grotesque GM featherless chicken that is coming soon to an inhumane pen near you. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: May 19, 2002 - May 25, 2002 Archives] Reference
As for the birds, I do not believe there is one of them but does more good than harm; and of how many featherless bipeds can this be said. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers] Reference
Plato famously thought he had the answer, arguing that humans were the world's only hairless and featherless creatures to walk on two feet. From Wordnik.com. [Homo Sapiens: A New Answer To An Old 'Quest'-Ion] Reference
MOLINEAUX: Let's take a look at another one perhaps a little less serious, a little more fun, but, well, actually, the featherless chicken. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2002] Reference
From a fashion perspective, he took the ice in a featherless. From Wordnik.com. [ETonline - Breaking News] Reference
The long-legged, long-necked birds have gray-brown bodies and featherless red foreheads. From Wordnik.com. [Summit Daily News - Top Stories] Reference
First off, they stand about two and a half feet tall, and they happen to own a long featherless tail. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
She's sort of standing up, and Max, her firstborn, is spreading his scrawny, featherless wings and opening his mouth. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories]
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