Tripod is a word generally used to refer to a three-legged object, generally one used as a platform of some sort, and comes from the Greektripous, meaning "three feet".
The tripod fish, Bathypterois grallator, deep sea fish named for the long extensions of its pelvic and lower caudal fins, on which it stands on the sea floor.
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