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an animal that has four feet
Horses and cows are quadrupeds.
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Recent Examples of quadrupeds
Developed by companies like Boston Dynamics, these quadrupeds are a viable solution for targeting mosquito habitats in harder-to-reach areas.
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Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2025
Unlike most quadrupeds, CARA doesn’t use any gears or pulleys.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 July 2025
Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2025
Unlike most quadrupeds, CARA doesn’t use any gears or pulleys.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 July 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quadrupeds
animals
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As the sun has grown subtly brighter over this span, if this supercontinent struggled with high carbon dioxide levels like its Pangaean forebear did, then this would be an inimically hot world to animals, except for lone refuges fringing its polar far reaches.—
Peter Brannen,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
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The Living Room on the hotel’s second floor features two bars, one on either end of the room, backed by gold, black, and white art deco scenes that depict famous New York City buildings and animals like a panther, a leopard, and a horse.—
Devorah Lev-Tov,
AFAR Media,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Quadrupeds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quadrupeds. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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