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Quadrupedal

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quad·ru·ped  (kwdr-pd)
n.
A four-footed animal.
adj.
Four-footed: a quadruped mammal.

quad·rupe·dal (kw-drp-dl, kwdr-pdl) adj.
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Adj.1.quadrupedal - having four feet
biped, bipedal, two-footed - having two feet


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My Dog-man imperceptibly slipped back to the dog again; day by day he became dumb, quadrupedal, hairy.
Seeing him thus quadrupedal in the grass, the priest raised his eyebrows rather sadly; and for the first time guessed that "fancies things" might be an euphemism.
It might have been no more than shock and accident; but there was something ungainly and unnatural about the quadrupedal posture and the gaping face.
 
 
 
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