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Meanings of quadrupeds in English

Russian
четвероногий
Portuguese
quadrúpede
Catalan
animal quadrúpede
Spanish
animal cuadrúpedo
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Animal whose locomotion uses four limbs (quadrupedalism)

        четвероногий
        Usage of quadrupeds in English
        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...
        6
        His company consisted of seventy-five bipeds and one hundred and twenty-five quadrupeds.
        Lands of the Slave and the Free; Or, Cuba, the United States, an...
        7
        As for the quadrupeds of New Zealand, they are easily disposed of.
        A First Year in Canterbury Settlement
        8
        This learned person was one of the people, or quadrupeds, called Centaurs.
        Tanglewood Tales
        9
        And with this, a new creation of enormous quadrupeds, as yet unknown.
        Scientific Essays and Lectures
        10
        Soldiership, especially, is a much more imperious necessity among birds than quadrupeds.
        Love's Meinie: Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds
        11
        Cars, velocipedes, quadrupeds, even power-skaters left towering black vortices in their wakes.
        The Diamond Age
        12
        The membrana tympani is larger than in other quadrupeds of the same size.
        An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 2 / ...
        13
        Almost all the old institutions are quadrupeds; and some of them are centipedes.
        What's Wrong with the World
        14
        A sorry brute to bear the name belonging to the king of quadrupeds.
        The Lone Ranche
        15
        Thus the two quadrupeds strolled comfortably together right into the courtyard.
        The Day of Wrath
        16
        They are just about the very dullest and silliest of all existing quadrupeds.
        Science in Arcady
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