as in animal
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an animal that has four feet
Horses and cows are quadrupeds.
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Recent Examples of quadruped
Dogs can bark, but robots can talk back Even the most advanced quadruped robot on the market today can’t match a real dog’s innate sense of smell or its highly developed navigational instincts.
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Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
The quadruped bot has four legs that can be equipped with wheels instead of conventional foot pads.
—New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2025
Each environment teaches the quadruped something new.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2025
The August trip to White Sands showed the quadruped could act autonomously.
—Jennifer Kite-Powell, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
This is another quadruped exercise that works the glutes, improving the stability and strength of the hip joint.
—Jakob Roze, Health, 19 Aug. 2025
Less than two weeks after its last release, MagicLab unveils another breakthrough — MagicDog-W, the wheeled quadruped robot.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 July 2025
More Kent Nishimura/AP A robotic quadruped, also known as a robot dog, during the US Army's 250th Anniversary Parade in Washington, DC, US, on Saturday, June 14, 2025.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 June 2025
Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
The quadruped bot has four legs that can be equipped with wheels instead of conventional foot pads.
—New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2025
Each environment teaches the quadruped something new.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2025
The August trip to White Sands showed the quadruped could act autonomously.
—Jennifer Kite-Powell, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
This is another quadruped exercise that works the glutes, improving the stability and strength of the hip joint.
—Jakob Roze, Health, 19 Aug. 2025
Less than two weeks after its last release, MagicLab unveils another breakthrough — MagicDog-W, the wheeled quadruped robot.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 July 2025
More Kent Nishimura/AP A robotic quadruped, also known as a robot dog, during the US Army's 250th Anniversary Parade in Washington, DC, US, on Saturday, June 14, 2025.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 June 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quadruped
Noun
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Embark's DNA tests screens for more than 400 breeds of dog, including wild animals such as dingoes, coyotes, wolves and village dogs, helping owners of mixed breeds understand their pet's ancestry.—
Rachael O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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Waste, agriculture, and energy increasingly intersect as crop residues and animal waste produce electricity and biofuels.—
Maurice Obeid,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This includes the eyeball alien that’s possessed the sheep, a rapidly growing Xenomorph, and large, flying bug-like creatures that have made a little hive for themselves.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Thousands of skeletal creatures were lying on bunks unable to move, while dead bodies were piled in heaps all around the camp, reeking of putrefaction.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Quadruped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quadruped. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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