bilignipeds

Updated: May 4, 2025

But the most wonderful monuments of the great restorer's skill are the patients who have lost both legs, nullipeds, as presented to Mr. Palmer, bilignipeds, as they walk forth again before the admiring world, balanced upon their two new-born members. We have before us delineations of six of these hybrids between the animal and vegetable world.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863