tetrapod
Any item with four arms or four feet, such as a light stand, a gun mount, etcAny item with four arms or four feet, such as a light stand, a gun mount, etc.
» Amphibians and reptiles are an example of tetrapods.
Meaning
5 sensesAny item with four arms or four feet, such as a light stand, a gun mount, etc.
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.
A type of vertebrate animal
Any vertebrate with four limbs.
a vertebrate animal having four feet or legs or leglike appendages
Any member of the superclass Tetrapoda
Landwirbeltier
Any vertebrate (such as birds or snakes) that has evolved from early tetrapods
Examples
2 sentencesAmphibians and reptiles are an example of tetrapods.
All reptiles are tetrapods.
Translations
4 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
From tetra- + -pod. Doublet of quadruped.From tetra- + -pod. Doublet of quadruped.
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