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Перевод: quadruped

[прилагательное]
четвероногий;
[существительное]
четвероногое животное

Тезаурус:

1. Anthropologists, in tracing the evolution of Homo sapiens from more primitive quadruped simian species, assumed that bipedalism facilitated the free use of hands from their role in locomotion.
2. As shown above, Hyperodapedon was a squat quadruped, 1.3 m in length, with powerful limbs.
3. This is likely to have been the case with the final dinosaur group evolving from the small types such as Psittacosaurus , or the parrot-type reptiles such as the heavily built quadruped ceratopsians.
4. Camels operate each foreleg and its associated hindleg in unison, more like a pantomime horse than a regular quadruped.
5. Similarly, a language in which "horse" meant a quadruped with cloven hoofs and horns, and "cow" one with a single toe and a mane, would be neither better nor worse than English.
6. In fact if you think about it, erm any quadruped or mammal can easily stop a male mounting.
7. Charles did not get into difficulties over "the south American quadruped" - it was a whole fauna of them.
8. But once it accelerates it adopts the normal movement of any quadruped.
9. The lower divisions of the vertebrata precede the higher; - the fish preceded the reptile, the reptile preceded the bird, and the bird preceded the mammiferous quadruped.
10. On the evidence of postcrania, Sivapithecus was similar to other Miocene apes in being an arboreal quadruped with perhaps a terrestrial component as well.
11. The point has been frequently made that there is no necessary reason why "dog" should mean the familiar, faithful, barking, domestic quadruped, which in other languages, gets referred to as chien, Hund, cane , etc.
12. It is a little known but true fact that a two legged creature can usually beat a four legged creature over a short distance, simply because of the time it takes the quadruped to get its legs sorted out.
13. William Scoresby, the Arctic explorer, noted that the liver of the bear is poisonous - the only part of any quadruped known to be so.