tetrapod
Meanings
noun
- 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.
- Any member of the superclass Tetrapoda
- Any vertebrate (such as birds or snakes) that has evolved from early tetrapods
adj
- Having four limbs or feet
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Etymology
From tetra- + -pod. Doublet of quadruped.
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