Quadruped

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A four-footed animal.
  • adj. Four-footed: a quadruped mammal.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. a four-footed or four-legged animal
  • n. a mammal ambulating on all fours
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having four feet.
  • n. An animal having four feet, as most mammals and reptiles; -- often restricted to the mammals.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Four-footed; having four limbs fitted for sustaining the body and for progression; habitually going on all fours: opposed to aliped and biped: correlated with quadrumanous and pedimanous: chiefly said of mammals, but also of four-footed reptiles, as lizards and tortoises. Compare quadrumanous.
  • n. A four-footed or quadruped animal: especially, a four-footed mammal, as distinguished from a biped, as man or a bird.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. having four feet
  • n. an animal especially a mammal having four limbs specialized for walking
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    tetrapod   
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    biped   
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    mammal    lizard    reptile    dinosaur    rodent    insect    flora    leopard    fowl    predator