Quadruped
['kwɒdrʊped] or ['kwɑdrupɛd]
Definition
(noun.) an animal especially a mammal having four limbs specialized for walking.
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Definition
(a.) Having four feet.
(n.) An animal having four feet, as most mammals and reptiles; -- often restricted to the mammals.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Four-footed animal.
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Definition
n. a four-footed animal.—adjs. Quad′ruped -al having four feet.—n. Quad′rupedism the state of being a quadruped.
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Examples
- 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. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Mr. Wallace has also detected one such case with birds, but we have none with the larger quadrupeds. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Quadrupeds have twice as many legs, run faster, and stand more firmly. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- You never meet with quadrupeds going up and down walls; you must not have quadrupeds represented upon walls. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- It is certain that insects and blood-sucking bats determine the existence of the larger naturalised quadrupeds in several parts of South America. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- For it would appear that climate has some direct action on the hair of our domestic quadrupeds. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- 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. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- No geologist feels any difficulty in Great Britain possessing the same quadrupeds with the rest of Europe, for they were no doubt once united. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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