"Quadruped" is a word in ENGLISH
Having four feet.
An animal having four feet, as most mammals and
reptiles; -- often restricted to the mammals.
The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all endangered today not by the dead hand of tradition but by modernity itself, and they can be salvaged only by moving beyond it.
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A choriambic verse, first used by the Greek poet Asclepias, consisting of four feet, viz., a spondee, two choriambi, and …
Read the complete definitionA leap of a horse, as between two pillars, or upon a straight line, so that when his four feet …
Read the complete definitionA large tropical fish (Orcynus pelamys) allied to the tunny. It is about three feet long, blue above, with four …
Read the complete definitionA wider distance between the rails than the \"standard\" gauge of four feet eight inches and a half. See Gauge.
Read the complete definitionA genus of large extinct mammals from the miocene strata of western North America. They were allied to the rhinoceros, …
Read the complete definitionAn instrument with four iron points, so disposed that, any three of them being on the ground, the other projects …
Read the complete definitionA Turkish pipe, usually with a mouthpiece of amber, a stem, four or five feet long and not pliant, of …
Read the complete definitionAn african ape (Anthropithecus troglodytes or Troglodytes niger) which approaches more nearly to man, in most respects, than any other …
Read the complete definitionA flat-floored fishing boat with a lug sail, and a drop rudder extending from two to four feet below the …
Read the complete definitionA solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four …
Read the complete definitionL. Lat. It runs upon four feet; or, as sometimes expressed, it runs upon all fours. A phrase used in …
Read the complete definitionA low, four-wheeled, open carriage, used in Russia, consisting of a kind of long, narrow bench, on which the passengers …
Read the complete definitionA species of deer (Elaphurus Davidianus) found in china. It is about four feet high at the shoulder and has …
Read the complete definitionA metallic stand with four feet, for keeping anything warm before a fire.
Read the complete definitionHaving four feet; quadruped; as, fourfooted beasts.
Read the complete definitionA verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly …
Read the complete definitionA large South African antelope (Strepsiceros kudu). The males have graceful spiral horns, sometimes four feet long. The general color …
Read the complete definitionAn eel-shaped ganoid fish of the order Dipnoi, having both gills and lungs. It inhabits the rivers of South America. …
Read the complete definitionAn inclosed carriage or litter, commonly about eight feet long, four feet wide, and four feet high, borne on the …
Read the complete definitionHaving pigeonlike feet; -- said of those gallinaceous birds that rest on all four toes, as the curassows and megapods.
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