pedality

The anatomical formation of the foot and surrounding region.

Noun

The anatomical formation of the foot and surrounding region.
- Cloven-footednesse includes pedality. - 1656, Thomas White, Peripateticall institutions.:
- A rusty brown coat, of antique cut, fitted closely to a long ungainly body; a pair of greasy galligaskins, which had once been gray, rand down into the capacious jaws of a long and large pair of rusty boots; these...
- There is really no difference between the formation of the lower pedalities of a pure dandy, and those of a pure Ethiopian. In this anatomical fact lies the great difficulty in the way of modern "squirts". - 1852...
Something that is associated with the foot, such as the way it is used (for locomotion or measurement) or the articles of clothing worn on it.
- I was followed by my noble hostess (womewhat more, be it understood, than a middle-aged lady), who gravely sate down, and, bidding me take off my cravat, like Thomson's Musidora—"...from her leg the inverted worsted...
- Changes in pedality can occur in animals due to injury, congenital defects, or behaviour. - 2010, James Andrew Smith, Jamil Jivraj, “Preliminary energetics of tripedal and quadrupedal gaits using the garp-4 robot.”, in...
- (see title) - 2010., Peter Aerts et al., “Changing pedality in primates: a case of fast ‘loco-morphing’."”, in Proceedings of The Society for Experimental Biology Annual Meeting:

From pedal + -ity.

The physical structure of a soil, especially in the context of its constituent peds.
- Following the ideas of the Soil Survey Manual (Soil Survey Staff, 1951), Bullock et al. (1985) recommended to describe the grade of pedality as part of the description of microstructure. Bullock et al. (1985) and...

ped- (“soil”) + -ality.