sexi-
occas. used as combining form of L. sex six: ˈsexifid = sexfid (see sex- 1). ˈsexiped(e [L. ped-, pēs foot] = hexapod. sexiˈpolar a., having or involving six magnetic poles. sexisyˈllabic a., of six syllables; so sexiˈsyllable. sexituˈbercular, sexiˈvalent adjs. = sextubercular, sexvalent (see sex- 1, 1 b).
| 1847 Blackw. Mag. LXI. 756 The delicate monsters, the savoury *sexipedes, with whom Typee and his comrades had to wage incessant war. 1889 MacColl Mr. Stranger's Sealed Packet v, All the creatures..were quadrupeds; there were no quintipeds, sexipeds, or anything of that sort among them. |
| 1854 Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims (1883) 35 The decasyllabic quatrain, or the octosyllabic with alternate *sexisyllabic, or other rhythms. |
| 1855 Ogilvie Suppl., *Sexisyllable. |
| 1872 Phil. Mag. XLIII. 260 Carbon is quadrivalent; two carbon atoms may unite by mutually saturating 1, 2, or 3 pairs of affinities, thus giving rise to a radical C2, which may be *sexi-, quadri-, or bivalent accordingly: thus, C2H6, C2H4, C2H2. 1874 J. P. Cooke New Chem. 244 The four sexivalent atoms of sulphur are the centres of subordinate groups connected with this nucleus. |