quadrupedal

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  1. Quadruped or four-footed; especially, going on all fours, or adapted or restricted to that mode of progression: as, the quadrupedal shape; quadrupedal locomotion.
  2. A quadruped. [Rare.] The coldest of any quadrupedal. Howell, Parly of Beasts, p. 11.

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  • Most mammals are quadrupedal (four-legged) or, in some cases, quadrumanal, as in arboreal monkeys who use all fours to climb and swing and leap. —  Omni: January 1993
  • Otherwise dinosaurs, like most of today's land mammals, would have all remained quadrupedal, and the holding and tearing functions of their forelimbs would have been fulfilled by other body parts, such as their jaws. —  Omni: June 1994
  • I guess it probably didn't have much influence on their extinction: Unique and sexy though quadrupedal launching may be, it obviously wasn't sexy enough to get pterosaurs across the Cretaceous boundary. —  msnbc.com: Community
  • You lose a bit of the comedic value that Monkeyz House had, because its 3D-modeled monkeys were more expressive and animated than these cute little kittens, and a few of the activities don't make the transition -- your pet apes could ride a tricycle in Monkeyz House, for example, but that's tougher trick for a quadrupedal creature to pull off. —  IGN DS
  • In the first five T&J shorts, Tom was exclusively quadrupedal, with the last being 'Dog Trouble'. —  BrokenTV
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  1. = Old French quadrupedal = Spanish cuadrupedal = Portuguese quadrupedal; as quadruped + -al.
 

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