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What (who) is QUADRUPEDS - definition
FORM OF TERRESTRIAL LOCOMOTION IN ANIMALS USING FOUR LIMBS
Quadrupedal; Quadrupeds; Quadruped (Robotics); Quadraped; Quadriped; Quadripedal; Pronograde; Quadrapeds; Quadruped; Quadrupedism; Quadropedal; Quadripedalism; Four-footed animals; Quadrupedal robot
quadruped
n.
Four-footed animal.
Quadrupedal
·adj Having four feet; of or pertaining to a quadruped.
quadruped
(quadrupeds)
A quadruped is any animal with four legs. (FORMAL)
N-COUNT
Wikipedia
Quadrupedalism
Quadrupedalism is a form of locomotion where four limbs are used to bear weight and move around. An animal or machine that usually maintains a four-legged posture and moves using all four limbs is said to be a quadruped (from Latin quattuor for "four", and pes, pedis for "foot"). Quadruped animals are found among both vertebrates and invertebrates.
Examples of use of QUADRUPEDS
1. The quadrupeds are cosseted and pampered all their lives, winners and losers without distinction, until one morning, without the slightest notion of their fates, they are carted off to be turned into dogmeat.
2. It was interest from Saatchi that made unknown artists like Tracy Emin and Damien Hirst –– with their dirty beds and pickled quadrupeds –– household names and turned their works into global gold dust.
3. He said: "I do not think they were destined to be quadrupeds by their genes, but their unique genetic make–up allowed them to be. ‘It has produced an extraordinary window on our past.