TETRAPOD

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A vertebrate animal having four feet or legs or leglike appendages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("tetrapod" is a kind of...):

craniate; vertebrate (animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tetrapod"):

quadruped (an animal especially a mammal having four limbs specialized for walking)

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