Quadruped
['kwɒdrʊped] or ['kwɑdrupɛd]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an animal especially a mammal having four limbs specialized for walking.
整理:贾丝廷--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Having four feet.
(n.) An animal having four feet, as most mammals and reptiles; -- often restricted to the mammals.
卡特編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Four-footed animal.
哈恩編輯
解釋/意思:
n. a four-footed animal.—adjs. Quad′ruped -al having four feet.—n. Quad′rupedism the state of being a quadruped.
編輯:桑德拉
例句/造句/用法:
- Take the case of a carnivorous quadruped, of which the number that can be supported in any country has long ago arrived at its full average. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Mr. Wallace has also detected one such case with birds, but we have none with the larger quadrupeds. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Quadrupeds have twice as many legs, run faster, and stand more firmly. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- You never meet with quadrupeds going up and down walls; you must not have quadrupeds represented upon walls. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- It is certain that insects and blood-sucking bats determine the existence of the larger naturalised quadrupeds in several parts of South America. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- For it would appear that climate has some direct action on the hair of our domestic quadrupeds. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- On either side, the islands stand on a moderately shallow submarine bank, and these islands are inhabited by the same or by closely allied quadrupeds. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- No geologist feels any difficulty in Great Britain possessing the same quadrupeds with the rest of Europe, for they were no doubt once united. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
手打:莎伦