| NOUN | animal | quadruped | an animal especially a mammal having four limbs specialized for walking |
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| ADJECTIVE | all | quadruped, quadrupedal, four-footed | having four feet |
| Meaning | Having four feet. | |
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| Synonyms | quadrupedal, four-footed | |
| Opposite | bipedal, biped, two-footed | Having two feet |
| Spanish | cuadrúpedo | |
| Catalan | quadrúpede | |
| Meaning | An animal especially a mammal having four limbs specialized for walking. | |
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| Category of | posteriority | The quality of being toward the back / back or toward the rear end |
| Parts | animal leg | The leg of an animal |
| flank | The side between ribs and hipbone | |
| forefoot | A front foot of a quadruped | |
| foreleg | The forelimb of a quadruped | |
| haunch | The loin and leg of a quadruped | |
| hind leg | The back limb of a quadruped | |
| hindfoot | A rear foot of a quadruped | |
| hindquarters, croup, croupe, rump | The part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks | |
| loin, lumbus | Either side of the backbone between the hipbone and the ribs in humans as well as quadrupeds | |
| Broader | tetrapod | A vertebrate animal having four feet or legs or leglike appendages |
| Spanish | cuadrúpedo | |
| Catalan | quadrúpede | |
| Adjectives | quadrupedal | having four feet |
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