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QUADRUPED

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An animal especially a mammal having four limbs specialized for walking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("quadruped" is a kind of...):

tetrapod (a vertebrate animal having four feet or legs or leglike appendages)

Meronyms (parts of "quadruped"):

forefoot (a front foot of a quadruped)

hindfoot (a rear foot of a quadruped)

loin; lumbus (either side of the backbone between the hipbone and the ribs in humans as well as quadrupeds)

croup; croupe; hindquarters; rump (the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks)

haunch (the loin and leg of a quadruped)

flank (the side between ribs and hipbone)

animal leg (the leg of an animal)

hind leg (the back limb of a quadruped)

foreleg (the forelimb of a quadruped)

Domain member category:

posteriority (the quality of being toward the back or toward the rear end)

Derivation:

quadrupedal (having four feet)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having four feet

Synonyms:

four-footed; quadruped; quadrupedal

Classified under:

Adjectives

Antonym:

biped (having two feet)

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