Meanings of four-legged animal in English

It seemed impossible that the flying something had been a four-legged animal.

It is a four-legged animal, with one leg longer than the others.

It was the footfall of a four-legged animal.

Scientists have identified the world's shortest-lived four-legged animal.

The large four-legged animal ran toward her and jumped up, putting his paws on her shoulders.

Maybe a four-legged animal of some kind.

Out of it, he produced an object shaped roughly like a four-legged animal with wings and a beak.

But the people took it ill that they should be desired to rescue a four-legged animal; and peremptorily refused.

What we thought was one four-legged animal turned out to be two two-legged people, walking in step together".

Tiktaalik had the jaw, fins and scales of a fish, and the neck, ribs and limbs of a four-legged animal.

It was not shaped like the stocky, muscular Vanthanoris, but it seemed to be a person, definitely not a four-legged animal.

When we speak of similes not going on four legs, it implies, I think, that a simile is at best but a four-legged animal.

But he made surprisingly little mention of the fact that it had clearly been a heavily-armoured, four-legged animal that justified some of his earlier interpretations.

Feathers are definitely not from fish or mammals; blood stains are from wounds; four-legged animals leave different marks than biped humans.