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quadruped |
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quadruped [kwod-roo-ped] Noun an animal, esp. a mammal, that has four legs [Latin quadru- four + pes foot]
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The cows jumped wildly over the five-barred barton-gate, maddened by the gad-fly; Dairyman Crick kept his shirt-sleeves permanently rolled up from Monday to Saturday; open windows had no effect in ventilation without open doors, and in the dairy-garden the blackbirds and thrushes crept about under the currant-bushes, rather in the manner of quadrupeds than of winged creatures. Pickwick, as the tall quadruped evinced a decided inclination to back into the coffee-room window. It was a magnificent sea-otter, an enhydrus, the only exclusively marine quadruped. |
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