Quadruped

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  • noun. A four-footed animal.
  • adjective. undefined
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Four-footed; having four limbs fitted for sustaining the body and for progression; habitually going on all fours: opposed to aliped and biped: correlated with quadrumanous and pedimanous: chiefly said of mammals, but also of four-footed reptiles, as lizards and tortoises. Compare quadrumanous.
  • noun. A four-footed or quadruped animal: especially, a four-footed mammal, as distinguished from a biped, as man or a bird.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Having four feet.
  • noun. An animal having four feet, as most mammals and reptiles; -- often restricted to the mammals.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. a four-footed or four-legged animal
  • noun. a mammal ambulating on all fours
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  • adjective. having four feet
  • noun. an animal especially a mammal having four limbs specialized for walking
    • Word Usage
    "A horse is a quadruped, and quadruped is Latin for beast, as everybody that's gone through the grammar knows, or else where's the use of havin 'grammars at all?"
    cross-reference
    biped  
    Form
    quadrupedal  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    tetrapod  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    beast  deer  dinosaur  elephant  elk  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    amphibian  aquatic  biped  biquadratic  canine  
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