adj
Meaning 1
Having four limbs or feet
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Standard Lemma guide
tetrapod
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Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈtɛ.tɹəˌpɒd/
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General-American: /ˈtɛ.tɹəˌpɑd/
noun
Meaning 2
Any item with four arms or four feet, such as a light stand, a gun mount, etc.
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noun
Meaning 3
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.
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noun
Meaning 4
A type of vertebrate animal
Any vertebrate with four limbs.
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noun
Meaning 5
A type of vertebrate animal
Any member of the superclass Tetrapoda
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noun
Meaning 6
A type of vertebrate animal
Any vertebrate (such as birds or snakes) that has evolved from early tetrapods
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noun
Meaning 7
a vertebrate animal having four feet or legs or leglike appendages
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Broader terms: vertebrate, craniate
Narrower terms: quadruped
History
Etymology
From tetra- + -pod. Doublet of quadruped.
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: четирикрак (četirikrak) — having four limbs or feet
- Finnish: nelijalkainen — having four limbs or feet
- French: tétrapode — having four limbs or feet
- Polish: czworonożny — having four limbs or feet
- Russian: четвероно́гий (četveronógij) — having four limbs or feet
- Finnish: nelijalkainen — member of superclass Tetrapoda
- Finnish: tetrapodi — member of superclass Tetrapoda
- German: Landwirbeltier — member of superclass Tetrapoda
- Korean: 네발동물 (nebaldongmul) — member of superclass Tetrapoda
- Polish: czworonóg — member of superclass Tetrapoda
- Swedish: landryggradsdjur — member of superclass Tetrapoda
- Bulgarian: тетрапод (tetrapod) — concrete structure
- Chinese: 肉粽角 (zh-min-nan) — concrete structure
- Chinese Mandarin: 消波塊 /消波块 (xiāobōkuài) — concrete structure
- Finnish: tetrapodi — concrete structure
- Japanese: 消波ブロック (shōha burokku) — concrete structure
- Polish: gwiazdoblok — concrete structure
- Polish: jeż betonowy — concrete structure
- Portuguese: pé de galinha — concrete structure
- Portuguese: tetrápode — concrete structure
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