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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Any item with four arms or four feet, such as a light stand, a gun mount, etc.
2. 2
   a vertebrate animal having four feet or legs or leglike appendages wordnet
3. 3
   Any item with four arms or four feet, such as a light stand, a gun mount, etc.; A concrete structure with arms, used to arrest wave energy along the shore in sea defence projects.
4. 4
   A type of vertebrate animal; Any vertebrate with four limbs.
5. 5
   A type of vertebrate animal; Any member of the superclass Tetrapoda

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6. 6
   A type of vertebrate animal; Any vertebrate (such as birds or snakes) that has evolved from early tetrapods

Adjective

1. 1
   Having four limbs or feet not-comparable

Synonyms

All synonyms

four-footedquadrupedquadrupedtetrapodaltetrapodictetrapous

Etymology

From tetra- + -pod. Doublet of quadruped.

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