quadruped
[kwod-roo-ped]
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adjective
noun
an animal, especially a mammal, having four feet.
Origin of quadruped
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The air resounded with the squallings of the quadrupedal multitude.
Not one of them adopted or attempted to adopt the quadrupedal position.
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But indeed the whole of the appointments and furniture of the house was adapted for beings who used the quadrupedal position.
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The creature that we have here can do absolutely nothing with his toes and is uncomfortable in the quadrupedal position.
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His quadrupeds include the mammalia and the quadrupedal reptiles.
Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to LinnusWilliam MacGillivray
quadruped
noun
adjective
Word Origin for quadruped
C17: from Latin quadrupēs, from quadru- (see quadri-) + pēs foot
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