quadruped

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   having four feet

   Dogs are quadruped.

2. 2
   noun

   A four-footed or four-legged animal.

   Bradshaw knew nothing of the 'wind of change' that was coming in a century's time, so he contented himself with an exposition on the Vale of the White Horse, "deriving its singular denomination from the gigantic carving of that useful quadruped, on a high chalky hill beyond".

3. 3
   noun

   an animal especially a mammal having four limbs specialized for walking

4. 4
   noun

   A mammal ambulating on all fours.

Borrowed from French quadrupède, from Middle French, from Latin stem of quadrupēs (“four-footed, a four-footed animal”), from quadri- (“four-”) + stem of pes (“foot”). Alternatively analyzable as quadru- + -ped. Doublet of tetrapod.

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