Meaning

5 senses
  1. Any item with four arms or four feet, such as a light stand, a gun mount, etc.

  2. Any item with four arms or four feet, such as a light stand, a gun mount, etc.

    A concrete structure with arms, used to arrest wave energy along the shore in sea defence projects.

  3. A type of vertebrate animal

    Any vertebrate with four limbs.

    a vertebrate animal having four feet or legs or leglike appendages

  4. Any member of the superclass Tetrapoda

    Landwirbeltier

  5. Any vertebrate (such as birds or snakes) that has evolved from early tetrapods

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Amphibians and reptiles are an example of tetrapods.

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  2. All reptiles are tetrapods.

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Translations

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By meaning 1
member of superclass Tetrapoda:

Origin

From tetra- + -pod. Doublet of quadruped.

From tetra- + -pod. Doublet of quadruped.

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Forms

plural: tetrapods
Singulartetrapod
Pluraltetrapods

regular

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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