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quadruped 1. an animal, esp a mammal, that has all four limbs specialized for walking 2. having four feet quadruped [′kwä·drə‚ped] (vertebrate zoology) An animal that has four legs. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The cows jumped wildly over the five-barred barton-gate, maddened by the gad-fly; Dairyman Crick kept his shirt-sleeves permanently rolled up from Monday to Saturday; open windows had no effect in ventilation without open doors, and in the dairy-garden the blackbirds and thrushes crept about under the currant-bushes, rather in the manner of quadrupeds than of winged creatures. Pickwick, as the tall quadruped evinced a decided inclination to back into the coffee-room window. It was a magnificent sea-otter, an enhydrus, the only exclusively marine quadruped. |
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