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Meanings of
quadrupeds
in English
Russian
четвероногий
Portuguese
quadrúpede
Catalan
animal quadrúpede
Spanish
animal cuadrúpedo
Back to the meaning
Animal whose locomotion uses four limbs (quadrupedalism)
quadruped
quadrupedal
quadrupedals
Russian
четвероногий
Synonyms
Examples for "
quadruped
"
quadruped
quadrupedal
quadrupedals
Examples for "
quadruped
"
1
This Mr. Home believes is not the case in any other
quadruped
.
2
The grizzly bear is the only really formidable
quadruped
of our continent.
3
The first living creature that observed my presence was a passing
quadruped
.
4
It was a magnificent sea-otter, an enhydrus, the only exclusively marine
quadruped
.
5
Vagary is as hard a word to turn into English as
quadruped
.
1
Psychically, this front-to-front attitude represents a great advance over the
quadrupedal
method.
2
But Macchiarelli insists the femur belonged to a
quadrupedal
ape, not a bipedal hominin.
3
Would anyone believe that a simple sternutation could produce such ravages on a
quadrupedal
organism?
4
We also had thrill of seeing Mr. Christiansen's large est
quadrupedal
act go wrong View Article
5
The scrub forest behind the house had been left to the decorating of its
quadrupedal
inhabitants.
Usage of
quadrupeds
in English
1
In America, the chase of the larger
quadrupeds
is not less destructive.
2
The different stages and vicissitudes in the existence of those noble
quadrupeds
.
'
3
The
quadrupeds
had no real intelligence, but they had the proper instincts.
4
In
quadrupeds
the box-shaped pelvis, which admits of easy parturition, is prevalent.
5
Very much so, Harry; but perhaps not more so than many
quadrupeds
.
6
His company consisted of seventy-five bipeds and one hundred and twenty-five
quadrupeds
.
7
As for the
quadrupeds
of New Zealand, they are easily disposed of.
8
This learned person was one of the people, or
quadrupeds
,
called Centaurs.
9
And with this, a new creation of enormous
quadrupeds
,
as yet unknown.
10
Soldiership, especially, is a much more imperious necessity among birds than
quadrupeds
.
11
Cars, velocipedes,
quadrupeds
,
even power-skaters left towering black vortices in their wakes.
12
The membrana tympani is larger than in other
quadrupeds
of the same size.
13
Almost all the old institutions are
quadrupeds
;
and some of them are centipedes.
14
A sorry brute to bear the name belonging to the king of
quadrupeds
.
15
Thus the two
quadrupeds
strolled comfortably together right into the courtyard.
16
They are just about the very dullest and silliest of all existing
quadrupeds
.
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Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
quadrupeds
quadruped
Noun
Plural
Frequent collocations
other quadrupeds
large quadrupeds
only quadrupeds
most quadrupeds
ordinary quadrupeds
More collocations
Translations for
quadrupeds
Russian
четвероногий
четвероногие
квадрупеды
Portuguese
quadrúpede
Catalan
animal quadrúpede
quadrúpede
Spanish
animal cuadrúpedo
cuadrúpedo
Quadrupeds
through the time
Quadrupeds
across language varieties
United Kingdom
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