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Meanings of quadruped in English

Portuguese
quadrúpede
Catalan
quadrúpede
Wikidata

Having four feet.

quadrúpede
Russian
четвероногий
Portuguese
quadrúpede
Catalan
animal quadrúpede
Spanish
animal cuadrúpedo
Wikidata

Animal whose locomotion uses four limbs (quadrupedalism)

четвероногий
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Examples for "quadrupeds"
Examples for "quadrupeds"
1
In America, the chase of the larger quadrupeds is not less destructive.
The Earth as Modified by Human Action
2
The different stages and vicissitudes in the existence of those noble quadrupeds.'
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844
3
The quadrupeds had no real intelligence, but they had the proper instincts.
Anything You Can Do ...
4
In quadrupeds the box-shaped pelvis, which admits of easy parturition, is prevalent.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884
5
Very much so, Harry; but perhaps not more so than many quadrupeds.
Stories about the Instinct of Animals, Their Characters, and Hab...
Usage of quadruped in English
1
This Mr. Home believes is not the case in any other quadruped.
An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 2 / ...
2
The grizzly bear is the only really formidable quadruped of our continent.
Astoria; Or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountai...
3
The first living creature that observed my presence was a passing quadruped.
Life in a Thousand Worlds
4
It was a magnificent sea-otter, an enhydrus, the only exclusively marine quadruped.
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
5
Vagary is as hard a word to turn into English as quadruped.
The Prairie
6
The results revealed significant difference between the bipedal and the quadruped rats.
Pubmed
7
The motion state of a quadruped robot in operation changes constantly.
Pubmed
8
Another trace of the quadruped ancestor is found in the baby.
The Story of Evolution
9
US robotics company Boston Dynamics releases new footage of WildCat, its quadruped robot.
BBC
10
The head of a horse is the head of a quadruped.
Deductive Logic
11
They remained for some minutes, gazing through the bushes at the huge quadruped.
The Bush Boys: History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his F...
12
It was a Silfen, riding some huge quadruped animal with thick scarlet fur.
The evolutionary void
13
The loyal quadruped is waiting for his master, and his anxiety is disinterested.
A Perilous Secret
14
His eye is to take in fish, flower, and bird, quadruped and biped.
Excursions
15
Another quadruped, a goat, lost its fore legs in this fight.
White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War
16
It is a marsupial quadruped which lives on bulbs, and ravages potato patches.
The Book of the Bush / Containing Many Truthful Sketches of the ...
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Translations for quadruped
Portuguese
quadrúpede
Quadruped through the time
Quadruped across language varieties
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