Quadruped

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Quadruped \Quad"ru*ped\, a. [L. quadrupes, -pedis; quattuor four
     + pes, pedis, a foot: cf. F. quadrup[`e]de. See {Quadrate},
     and {Foot}.]
     Having four feet.
     [1913 Webster]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Quadruped \Quad"ru*ped\, n. (Zool.)
     An animal having four feet, as most mammals and reptiles; --
     often restricted to the mammals.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  quadruped
       adj : having four feet [syn: {quadrupedal}, {four-footed}] [ant: {bipedal},
              {bipedal}]
       n : an animal especially a mammal having four limbs specialized
           for walking

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  41 Moby Thesaurus words for "quadruped":
     amphibian, aquatic, biped, biquadratic, canine, cannibal,
     carnivore, cosmopolite, feline, four, four-legged, four-rayed,
     foursquare, gnawer, herbivore, insectivore, invertebrate, mammal,
     mammalian, marsupial, marsupialian, omnivore, primate, quadric,
     quadrilateral, quadrinomial, quadrivalent, quartic, quartile,
     quaternary, reptile, rodent, ruminant, scavenger, tetractinal,
     tetrad, tetravalent, ungulate, varmint, vermin, vertebrate