ped-, pedi-, -pedal, -ped, -pede, -pedia +

1. The stalk that attaches a single flower, flower cluster, or fruit to the stem.
2. A stalk supporting an animal organ; such as, the eye-stalk of a lobster.
3. A part resembling a stalk in shape or function, e.g. the base of a fish's tail or a structure attaching an invertebrate animal to the place where it lives.
4. In botany,the stem or stalk that supports the fructification of a plant, and of course, the fruit.
5. Etymology: from modern Latin pedunculus, "small foot"; from Latin ped- "foot".

Someone who does boring menial tasks; a laborer who is obliged to do menial work.

From early 17th century via Spanish peón, Portuguese peão, "foot soldier" from medieval Latin pedon- which is from Latin ped-, "foot".

1. In Latin America and the southern United States, a former system under which a debtor was forced to work for a creditor until a debt was paid.
2. The status or condition of being a peon.

Having a stem or pedicle.

1. The slender stem that supports the blade of a leaf.
2. A stalk or peduncle, that connects the abdomen and thorax in wasps.
3. Etymology: Latin petiolus, variant of peciolus, "little foot, fruit stalk", probably from pediciolus, diminutive of pediculus.

1. Having feet resembling fins, fin-footed; specifically, belonging to a suborder (Pinnipedia) of Carnivora, comprising the seals and walruses, which have fin-like limbs or flippers; also, belonging to other divisions of animals having limbs or organs resembling fins and adapted for swimming, e.g. the fin-footed or lobe-footed birds, certain decapod crustaceans or crabs, the pteropod molluscs, etc.
2. A pinniped mammal; a seal or walrus.

1. A person or group that is the first to do something or that leads in developing something new.
2. A person who is one of the first from another country or region to explore or settle a new area.
3. A foot soldier whose duties include going ahead of the main company to construct things to pave the way for them.
4. The first species of plant or animal life to begin living in a previously unoccupied site; for example, a moss beginning to grow on otherwise bare rock.
5. Etymology: from 1523, "foot soldier who prepares the way for the army", from Middle French pionnier, from Old French paonier, "foot soldier" from about the 11th century from peon.

Any creature that has many feet; many footed.

1. An animal that has four feet. Usually a reference to mammals, and excluding four-footed reptiles.
2. Belonging to, connected with, or appropriate to four-footed animals.

1. Of animals, four-footed; using all four feet for walking or running.
2. Sometimes a reference to a person: on hands and knees.

Having feet that are oar-shaped, or used as oars for swimming (a reference to certain insects).

1. Of words and expressions (after Horace’s sesquipedalia verba, “words a foot and a half long”); of many syllables.
2. A word with many letters or syllables.
3. A description of a person who is overly given to using long words; especially when verbal construction utilizing less amplification might represent a more naturally efficacious phraseology.
4. A person or thing that is a foot and a half in height or length.

Hexapod, with six feet.

Denoting someone who uses the left leg in preference to the right; left-footed.

A reference to the soles of the feet.