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Definition of quadruped in English: quadrupednoun ˈkwɒdrʊpɛdˈkwɑdrəˌpɛd An animal which has four feet, especially an ungulate mammal. 四足动物（尤指有蹄类哺乳动物） smell is so important to quadrupeds as modifier primitive quadruped simian species Example sentencesExamples - Let there be happiness in our home both for bipeds and quadrupeds.
- Thus, these strange quadrupeds were made into bipeds.
- Finally, if the quadrupeds don't alarm T. R. enough, the bipeds will.
- During terrestrial locomotion in a quadruped, the manus pushes against the substrate to decelerate, support, and reaccelerate the body.
- On one side the tail of a serpent is seen on a quadruped, on the other side, the head of a quadruped is on the body of a fish.
- Lions are quadrupeds, so they walk on four legs, not two.
- Horses, and other quadrupeds, also have scope for functional specialisation between limbs.
- The quadruped stood on all four of its legs, its silver-grey synthetic fur shining, the false yellow eyes gleaming intensely.
- A quadruped can be stable with only three feet on the ground.
- In the case of larger quadrupeds, birds, fish etc, preparing and eating the item is considerably easier when it is dead.
- It's a sad fact of life that certain small, furry quadrupeds don't make for suitable house pets.
- When he shifted back into his saddle, even further from Olos, the horse moved closer, bristling a little before his quadruped motion stopped.
- All the permissible domesticated or reared quadrupeds can be offered for Qurbani.
- Born to run: humans will never win a sprint against your average quadruped.
- Not surprisingly, crurotarsans are much more likely to be obligate quadrupeds than are ornithodires.
- The creature was a quadruped, two appendages connected to the upper chest cavity, in a very mammalian like structure.
- Such strange visions appeared during my delirium, beach demons with claws, odd quadrupeds, wings that staggered through dusk.
- The glows appeared at varied heights, as the beings seemed to have a choice of being bipeds or quadrupeds.
- We should be able to tell the size of his average step, how his chest muscles worked, and if he was truly a quadruped or if he was bipedal.
- At least in quadrupeds, the weight of the lung is only a minor determinant of nonuniform transpulmonary pressures and alveolar volumes.
Derivativesadjective kwɒdrʊˈpiːd(ə)l Zoology (of an animal) four-footed; using all four feet for walking and running. the front legs of quadrupedal mammals typically support about 60% of body weight Example sentencesExamples - Undistorted, he writes, the evidence left by the neck muscles ‘is within the range of fossil hominids’ and is ‘nothing like that of any quadrupedal ape.’
- However, except for Urban, few data are available to test if the kinematics of bipedal and quadrupedal running differ.
- The front legs of quadrupedal mammals typically support about 60% of body weight.
noun ˌkwɒdrʊˈpiːd(ə)lɪz(ə)m Zoology These inferences, however, often occur in situations where an optimization is ambiguous (e.g., O'Leary and Uhen, 1999 on terrestrial quadrupedalism or aquatic predation).
OriginMid 17th century: from French quadrupède or Latin quadrupes, quadruped-, from quadru- 'four' + pes, ped- 'foot'. Definition of quadruped in US English: quadrupednounˈkwɑdrəˌpɛdˈkwädrəˌped An animal which has four feet, especially an ungulate mammal. 四足动物（尤指有蹄类哺乳动物） smell is so important to quadrupeds as modifier primitive quadruped simian species Example sentencesExamples - We should be able to tell the size of his average step, how his chest muscles worked, and if he was truly a quadruped or if he was bipedal.
- Horses, and other quadrupeds, also have scope for functional specialisation between limbs.
- Let there be happiness in our home both for bipeds and quadrupeds.
- A quadruped can be stable with only three feet on the ground.
- All the permissible domesticated or reared quadrupeds can be offered for Qurbani.
- Lions are quadrupeds, so they walk on four legs, not two.
- Thus, these strange quadrupeds were made into bipeds.
- Born to run: humans will never win a sprint against your average quadruped.
- Such strange visions appeared during my delirium, beach demons with claws, odd quadrupeds, wings that staggered through dusk.
- In the case of larger quadrupeds, birds, fish etc, preparing and eating the item is considerably easier when it is dead.
- During terrestrial locomotion in a quadruped, the manus pushes against the substrate to decelerate, support, and reaccelerate the body.
- Not surprisingly, crurotarsans are much more likely to be obligate quadrupeds than are ornithodires.
- The glows appeared at varied heights, as the beings seemed to have a choice of being bipeds or quadrupeds.
- The quadruped stood on all four of its legs, its silver-grey synthetic fur shining, the false yellow eyes gleaming intensely.
- At least in quadrupeds, the weight of the lung is only a minor determinant of nonuniform transpulmonary pressures and alveolar volumes.
- It's a sad fact of life that certain small, furry quadrupeds don't make for suitable house pets.
- Finally, if the quadrupeds don't alarm T. R. enough, the bipeds will.
- When he shifted back into his saddle, even further from Olos, the horse moved closer, bristling a little before his quadruped motion stopped.
- On one side the tail of a serpent is seen on a quadruped, on the other side, the head of a quadruped is on the body of a fish.
- The creature was a quadruped, two appendages connected to the upper chest cavity, in a very mammalian like structure.
OriginMid 17th century: from French quadrupède or Latin quadrupes, quadruped-, from quadru- ‘four’ + pes, ped- ‘foot’. |