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an animal that has four feet
Horses and cows are quadrupeds.
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Recent Examples of quadruped
In some cases, the animals still wouldn’t move even after the quadruped bumped into them.
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Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 10 July 2025
More Kent Nishimura/AP A robotic quadruped, also known as a robot dog, during the US Army's 250th Anniversary Parade in Washington, DC, US, on Saturday, June 14, 2025.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 June 2025
Ukraine has deployed quadrupeds – ‘robot dogs’ – but Bondar reports the results have been poor.
—David Hambling, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Kawasaki Which is not to say that ride-on quadrupeds aren't going to be a thing.
—New Atlas, 6 Apr. 2025
And since Aibo’s debut, the company has sold more than 170,000 of the cute little quadrupeds—a huge number considering their price of several thousand dollars each.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 Dec. 2024
This paper contributes to quantifying the notion of robotic fitness by developing a set of necessary conditions that determine whether a small quadruped has the ability to open a class of doors or climb a class of stairs using only quasi-static maneuvers.
—Erico Guizzo, IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2017
The startup's Honey Badger quadruped has now gone through four iterations, and the latest has developed a taste for water.
—Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 21 Oct. 2024
The quadruped has some other useful capabilities that put it ahead of small drones.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 10 July 2025
More Kent Nishimura/AP A robotic quadruped, also known as a robot dog, during the US Army's 250th Anniversary Parade in Washington, DC, US, on Saturday, June 14, 2025.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 June 2025
Ukraine has deployed quadrupeds – ‘robot dogs’ – but Bondar reports the results have been poor.
—David Hambling, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Kawasaki Which is not to say that ride-on quadrupeds aren't going to be a thing.
—New Atlas, 6 Apr. 2025
And since Aibo’s debut, the company has sold more than 170,000 of the cute little quadrupeds—a huge number considering their price of several thousand dollars each.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 Dec. 2024
This paper contributes to quantifying the notion of robotic fitness by developing a set of necessary conditions that determine whether a small quadruped has the ability to open a class of doors or climb a class of stairs using only quasi-static maneuvers.
—Erico Guizzo, IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2017
The startup's Honey Badger quadruped has now gone through four iterations, and the latest has developed a taste for water.
—Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 21 Oct. 2024
The quadruped has some other useful capabilities that put it ahead of small drones.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quadruped
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Strange animals that get their energy from chemical reactions instead of the sun have been discovered at the bottom of ocean trenches up to 31,000 feet deep in the northwest Pacific between Russia and Alaska, a new study reports.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
16 Aug. 2025
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Both beloved animals have died, the zoo announced Friday.—
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Players will need to survive a brutal future, extract key people from the past and stop nightmarish creatures.—
Meredith G. White,
AZCentral.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Housing marine creatures, the facility was on the forefront of understanding the care and training of dolphins.—
Bonnie Gross,
Sun Sentinel,
6 Aug. 2025
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“Quadruped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quadruped. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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