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concurrent à (deux, quatre, six, huit, mille) pattes

English translation: (two-, four-, six-, eight-)2-, 4-, 6-, 8-legged rival species/animals, let alone centipedes

20:01 Jul 17, 2009

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Science - Botany / mediterranean gardening book

French term or phrase: concurrent à (deux, quatre, six, huit, mille) pattes

I can only find patte to mean foot or rag, and im not sure which to take as the stem of this phrase.

It occurs in the following sentence:
Enfin, rappelez-vous que potager et verger sont appréciés des concurrents à deux, quatre, six, huit ou mille pattes.

cbeavis

English translation:(two-, four-, six-, eight-)2-, 4-, 6-, 8-legged rival species/animals, let alone centipedes

Explanation:
A suggestion.

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Euqinimod
France
Local time: 04:00

Grading comment

Thanks very much, i was really struggling with this phrase, and yours seems to fit into the text the best.
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Summary of answers provided

3 +5

(other) creatures with 2, 4, 6, 8 or many more legs

Rachel Fell

3 +2

competitors with 2, 4, six, 8 or one-hundred legs

jlsjr

3 +1

(two-, four-, six-, eight-)2-, 4-, 6-, 8-legged rival species/animals, let alone centipedes

Euqinimod

Answers

5 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

competitors with 2, 4, six, 8 or one-hundred legs

Explanation:
I don't know how you will translate but 'pattes' are legs here and these refer to:
birds (humans?): 2 legs
mammals: 4 legs
insects: 6 legs
spiders: 8 legs
centipedes: 100 legs in English and 1000 in French...

jlsjr
United States
Local time: 22:00
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