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Definition of "quadruped" []

  • A four-footed animal. (noun)
  • Four-footed: a quadruped mammal. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "quadruped" in a sentence
  • "A horse is a quadruped, and quadruped is Latin for beast, as everybody that's gone through the grammar knows, or else where's the use of havin 'grammars at all?"
  • "An odd hairy quadruped is upsetting residents of Scott Town, Jamaica, again."
  • "The male monkey makes insulting faces at me, and the quadruped is something of a bully."