How To Use Quadruped In A Sentence

An odd hairy quadruped is upsetting residents of Scott Town, Jamaica, again. Archive 2008-06-01
So how, precisely, do I find myself the father of a teenage owner of one 5-year-old, skewbald, equine quadruped, about 13 hands tall, who answers, rather inattentively, to the name Buttons? Finding the Next Winner
Griffons were pony-sized, quadrupedal avians with such a reputation for savagery that they had been banned from all the Northern mountain provinces.
So how, precisely, do I find myself the father of a teenage owner of one five-year-old, skewbald, equine quadruped, about 13 hands tall, who answers, rather inattentively, to the name Buttons? History, Horses and the Luck of the Irish
It appears, also, from the researches of Leydig18 and others, that striped fibres extend from the panniculus to some of the larger hairs, such as the vibrissæ of certain quadrupeds. The expression of the emotions in man and animals

The ankylosaurs were heavily armoured dinosaurs, 2 to 10 meters long, quadrupedal, slow moving, and fed on swampy soft vegetation.
_malapropos_; for instance, she called out, to a little fat, stupid, roly-poly girl, to whom Miss Benson was busy explaining the meaning of the word quadruped, Ruth
In the seventh edition (1720) I find to my great solace and comfort the entry, dog, 'a well-known creature, 'a somewhat meagre definition, improved into 'a quadruped well-known' by Nathaniel Bailey, whose dictionary, first published in octavo (1721), ran through a very large number of editions and became the standard authority until superseded by Johnson. On Dictionaries
Damage to the property of another injuria datum was the subject matter of the Aquilian Law, and the damage must have been inflicted by a freedman; if by a slave, it was a noxal tort; if by a quadruped, the tort and liability were designated pauperies. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
Bloodless and many footed animals, whether furnished with wings or feet, move with more than four points of motion; as, for instance, the dayfly moves with four feet and four wings: and, I may observe in passing, this creature is exceptional not only in regard to the duration of its existence, whence it receives its name, but also because though a quadruped it has wings also. The History of Animals
And pray, friend, what may you call a quadruped? The Prairie
In an upright biped, like humans and Australopithecines, the head is balanced on top of the spine, whereas in the quadruped like a chimpanzee the head is slung from the front of the spine.
I admire the way they blur the line between biped and quadruped. Times, Sunday Times
Bloodless and many footed animals, whether furnished with wings or feet, move with more than four points of motion; as, for instance, the dayfly (ephémeron) moves with four feet and four wings: and, I may observe in passing, this creature is exceptional not only in regard to the duration of its existence, whence it receives its name, but also because though a quadruped it has wings also. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
Thus, these strange quadrupeds were made into bipeds.
Born to run: humans will never win a sprint against your average quadruped.
Yes! gentlemen, "addressing the attentive cowboys," I can cure anything that touches the ground -- biped, quadruped, or centipede -- glanders, botts, greased hoofs, heaves, blind staggers, it makes no odds. Jim Cummings Or, The Great Adams Express Robbery
The rasorial type comprehends most of the animals which become domesticated and useful to man, as, first, the fowls which give a name to the type, the ungulata, and more particularly the ruminantia, among quadrupeds, and the dog among the ferae. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
He had, indeed, that strong aversion felt by all the lower ranks of people towards four-footed companions very completely, notwithstanding he had for many years a cat which he called Hodge, that kept always in his room at Fleet Street; but so exact was he not to offend the human species by superfluous attention to brutes, that when the creature was grown sick and old, and could eat nothing but oysters, Mr. Johnson always went out himself to buy Hodge's dinner, that Francis the black's delicacy might not be hurt, at seeing himself employed for the convenience of a quadruped. Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson
They also move quadrupedally in the trees and they also use a suspensor manner to move around in a feeding source. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
Animals that are coated with tessellates-such as the lizard and the other quadrupeds, and the serpents-are omnivorous: at all events they are carnivorous and graminivorous; and serpents, by the way, are of all animals the greatest gluttons. The History of Animals
Aristotle's approach to the subject is to ask "why some animals are footless, others bipeds, others quadrupeds, others polypods, and why all have an even number of feet, if they have feet at all; why in fine the points on which progression depends are even in number. Archive 2009-03-01
Let there be happiness in our home both for bipeds and quadrupeds.
I think it a conclusion, fully justified by analogy, that, sooner or later, we shall discover the remains of our less specialised primatic ancestors in the strata which have yielded the less specialised equine and canine quadrupeds. Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays
No little Gradgrind had ever associated a cow in a field with that famous cow with the crumpled horn who tossed the dog who worried the cat who killed the rat who ate the malt, or with that yet more famous cow who swallowed Tom Thumb: it had never heard of those celebrities, and had only been introduced to a cow as a graminivorous ruminating quadruped with several stomachs. Hard Times
Finally, if the quadrupeds don't alarm T. R. enough, the bipeds will.
So how, precisely, do I find myself the father of a teenage owner of one five-year-old, skewbald, equine quadruped, about 13 hands tall, who answers, rather inattentively, to the name Buttons? History, Horses and the Luck of the Irish
We prize them for their rough-plastic, abstergent force; to get people out of the quadruped state; to get them washed, clothed, and set up on end; to slough their animal husks and habits; compel them to be clean; overawe their spite and meanness, teach them to stifle the base, and choose the generous expression, and make them know how much happier the generous behaviors are. The Conduct of Life (1860)
The quadruped stood on all four of its legs, its silver-grey synthetic fur shining, the false yellow eyes gleaming intensely.
So how, precisely, do I find myself the father of a teenage owner of one 5-year-old, skewbald, equine quadruped, about 13 hands tall, who answers, rather inattentively, to the name Buttons? Finding the Next Winner
When he shifted back into his saddle, even further from Olos, the horse moved closer, bristling a little before his quadruped motion stopped.
Still retaining his Zimmerman and his senses, he looked down and beheld the corniferous quadruped gamboling playfully round his singular asylum. Sketches — Volume 04
'The head of a quadruped is the head of a quadruped,' and being given that 'A horse is a quadruped, 'so that whatever is true of' quadruped 'generally we know to be true of' horse, 'we are entitled to substitute the narrower for the wider term, and in this manner we arrive at the proposition, Deductive Logic
Horses, and other quadrupeds, also have scope for functional specialisation between limbs.
The doctor armed himself, and held himself in readiness to fire upon an animal which, by its dimensions, recalled the antediluvian quadrupeds. The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras
Because in an upright biped, like humans and Australopithecines, the head is balanced on top of the spine, whereas in the quadruped like a chimpanzee the head is slung from the front of the spine.
Animals that are coated with tessellates-such as the lizard and the other quadrupeds, and the serpents-are omnivorous: at all events they are carnivorous and graminivorous; and serpents, by the way, are of all animals the greatest gluttons. The History of Animals
They also have difficulty with stairs and descend feet-first. However, researchers also report seeing quadrupeds 'running', moving agilely over rough terrain and travelling long distances.
I should have thought, said Pleydell, that very respectable quadruped, which is just now limping out of the room upon three of his four legs, was rather of the Cynic school. Chapter LII
All the permissible domesticated or reared quadrupeds can be offered for Qurbani.
First, there is the true zebra (_Equus zebra_), perhaps the most beautiful of all quadrupeds, and of which no description need be given. The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family
A new genus and species of 'giant hutia' (Tainotherium valei) from the Quaternary of Puerto Rico: an extinct arboreal quadruped? Archive 2006-12-01
The several species of that gigantic genus of birds, the Deinornis, seem here to have replaced mammiferous quadrupeds, in the same manner as the reptiles still do at the Galapagos Archipelago. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
All these animals had acquired adaptations for quadrupedal climbing similar to those of the modern young hoatzin, a bird native to tropical South America.
In La Plata the puma preys chiefly on deer, ostriches, bizcacha, and other small quadrupeds; it there seldom attacks cattle or horses, and most rarely man. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
I admire the way they blur the line between biped and quadruped. Times, Sunday Times
For in polydactylous quadrupeds the fore-feet are intended not merely to support the weight of the body, but to serve as hands. On the Parts of Animals
The Turkish children featured in the documentary show what I'd call facultative quadrupedalism; they walk on all fours out of necessity. Archive 2006-11-01
The face we call the obverse is entirely occupied by the body of a fantastic quadruped, partly chiselled in slight relief, partly engraved. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1
Not but what even among quadrupeds there is at any rate a tendency for such as are polydactylous to use their forefeet not only for locomotion but as hands. On the Parts of Animals
It is as if a man told me that a dim survival of the instincts of a quadruped was the reason of my sitting on a chair with four legs. The New Jerusalem
It's a sad fact of life that certain small, furry quadrupeds don't make for suitable house pets.
I have visited the sign in question, which yet swings exalted in the village of Langdirdum; and I am ready to depone upon the oath that what has been idly mistaken or misrepresented as being the fifth leg of the horse, is, in fact, the tail of that quadruped, and, considered with reference to the posture in which he is delineated, forms a circumstance introduced and managed with great and successful, though daring, art. The Bride of Lammermoor
Frontal prominences, more truly so termed, are even better developed in peaceful, timid, graminivorous quadrupeds than in the skulls of man or of ape. Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882
A person's arms homologize with a quadruped's forelimbs
You are now on the second speed, which you will no doubt observe is considerably faster than the lower speed … Remember that with a motor-car the driver controls the vehicle, and in this it differs from a horse-drawn vehicle, in which the driver is often at the mercy of the animal, to be pulled here, backed there, or upset altogether, should this chance to please the noble quadruped. To Drive a Motorcar | Edwardian Promenade
In the ovipara, again, it is low in fish (as in women and the viviparous quadrupeds), high in birds and all oviparous quadrupeds. On the Generation of Animals
These forms include the tree-kangaroos (genus Dendrolagus), which are excellent climbers; pademelons (genus Thylogale), which often walk with a quadrupedal gait; and the relatively short-tailed quokkas (genus Setonix).
This was followed by a work on quadrupeds, completed by his sons. A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES
He then returns to the external parts associated with the torso and limbs of the live bearing and egg laying quadrupeds, birds, and fish; and ends by discussing a number of animals that ˜dualize™ between being land-dwellers and water dwellers or flyers. Aristotle's Biology
They had stopped up the holes in their cuirasses with the shoulder-blades of quadrupeds, and replaced their brass cothurni with worn sandals. Salammbo
Buffaloes and other large African quadrupeds share the territory with elephants. Times, Sunday Times
Thus, problems with stegosaur tracks possibly stem from the expectation of their quadrupedality. Neoceratopsian publications for 2008
Not surprisingly, crurotarsans are much more likely to be obligate quadrupeds than are ornithodires.
The ornithopod dinosaurs that left these tracks may have been quadrupedal, walking on all fours.
A horse is a quadruped, and quadruped is Latin for beast, as everybody that's gone through the grammar knows, or else where's the use of havin 'grammars at all? Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform
_Fouines_, a quadruped known as the minx or mink, _Mustela vison_. Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 03
For if its ischium extended but a short way from the fundament, and then immediately came the leg, as is the case in man and in quadrupeds, the bird would be unable to stand up at all. On the Parts of Animals
During terrestrial locomotion in a quadruped, the manus pushes against the substrate to decelerate, support, and reaccelerate the body.
In some cases horns form one part with the helmet, while in other cases it is relief figures of the foreparts of birds or quadrupeds.
In some oviparous quadrupeds, namely in lizards, the tongue is bifid, as also it is in serpents, and its terminal divisions are of hair-like fineness, as has already been described. On the Parts of Animals
The black uakari is predominantly quadrupedal - walking, running and leaping with great frequency.
I know, this isn't the usual stuff posted to the GB, but the hound looks so way cool, and besides, unlike all those gag pictures we've all seen, this particular digitigrade quadruped actually needs those goggles. Archive 2008-08-01
The viviparous quadrupeds - literally means four-footed mammals bearing living offspring.
For he is the cleanest in the use of his forepaws of any quadruped.
The best known members of this small group are the openings through the abdominal wall, which, originally placed at the strongest and safest position in the quadrupedal attitude, are now, in the erect attitude, at the weakest and most dangerous, and furnish opportunity for those serious and sometimes fatal escapes of portions of the intestines which we call hernia; the tonsils; and our friend the _appendix vermiformis_. Preventable Diseases
Massive but short stegosaur forelimbs suggest primarily bipedal locomotion, and quadrupedal defense posture. Neoceratopsian publications for 2008
Certainly -- it is a yellowish, fatty substance concocted by human agency supposedly from the lacteous secretion of the graminivorous quadruped familiarly known as the common (or garden) cow. The Definite Object A Romance of New York
It is true that in the smaller polydactylous quadrupeds the hind feet also have each five toes. On the Parts of Animals
The only specimens of quadrupeds, birds, fish and cetacea were a few wild boars, stormy petrels, albatrosses, perch and seals. In Search of the Castaways
_Autobiography_, "that there emerged the quadruped, the twiformed monster Mr. Shaw has nicknamed the Chesterbelloc. Gilbert Keith Chesterton
On one side the tail of a serpent is seen on a quadruped, on the other side, the head of a quadruped is on the body of a fish.
The crustacea copulate like the retromingent quadrupeds, fitting their tails to one another, the one supine and the other prone. On the Generation of Animals
“living on land” is divisible into walking and flying, and walking is further divisible into quadruped, biped, and polypod. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
The glows appeared at varied heights, as the beings seemed to have a choice of being bipeds or quadrupeds.
The hamsters are very fierce little creatures: constantly fighting with other quadrupeds, and even among themselves; but the polecat is their master and tyrant, and carries on a war of extermination against them -- following them through the intricate ways of their burrows, and destroying them even in their dens! Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys
I 'll see to that." said Miss Asphyxia. as she gathered up the reins and gave a cut to her horse, which started that quadruped from a dream of green grass into a most animated pace. Oldtown Folks
I look for one of these awesome creatures - are they bipeds, quadrupeds, spotted or brindle?
We have now done with such sanguineous animals as are quadrupedous and also such as are apodous, and have stated with sufficient completeness what external parts they possess, and for what reason they have them. On the Parts of Animals
ventral (or pelvic) fins correspond to the hind limbs of a quadruped
THUS THE PIG TRIBE, though not a ruminating mammal, as might be inferred from the number of its molar teeth, is yet a link between the herbivorous and the carnivorous tribes, and is consequently what is known as an omnivorous quadruped; or, in other words, capable of converting any kind of aliment into nutriment. The Book of Household Management
The fifth type is, perhaps, the most extraordinary of all; it should represent not only the order _Rasores_ among birds, but also the _Camelopardalis_ among ruminating quadrupeds. Delineations of the Ox Tribe The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos.
The robotic quadruped will carry up to 400lb across rough terrain. Times, Sunday Times
Lions are quadrupeds, so they walk on four legs, not two.
Of course there were surely also many species which were precocial, but I can also imagine that especially quadrupede dinosaurs like small sauropods probably looked very clumsy when they tried to make their first walk. Joy in the Farmyard
The creature was a quadruped, two appendages connected to the upper chest cavity, in a very mammalian like structure.
It is this hand-like office of the anterior limbs which explains why in some of the polydactylous quadrupeds, such as wolves, lions, dogs, and leopards, there are actually five digits on each forefoot, though there are only four on each hind one. On the Parts of Animals
Assuming the Vilenjji believed the evidence of their own electronic eyes, they could reasonably come to no other conclusion than that the small quadruped and decapod were both demised and in the process of being digested. Lost And Found
Pocket mice are smaller, and while they are saltatorial, their hind limbs are not as modified as those of kangaroo rats and their locomotion is primarily quadrupedal.
NEW Elastic Walking Mechanism ( NEWM ) Spring connecting rod mechanism applied on quadruped walking robot was introduced.
Some researchers have proposed that the first pterosaurs were bipedal or quadrupedal arboreal gliders, but these hypotheses do not incorporate a robust phylogenetic and functional basis.
A quadruped can be stable with only three feet on the ground.
But somehow that encounter did not come off, and possibly the recollection of the active little white quadrupeds that were closely caged-up in the desk may have suggested the idea enunciated by the Glyn Severn's Schooldays
An elephant is a quadruped.
In its overall look and style of quadrupedal movement, 'future predator' looked something like a giant flightless bat, and this is where I really got quite interested...
To take the weight of the body off the spine, and to render both ends of the column mobile, these exercises are carried out in the "all-fours" attitude, the patient crawling in imitation of a quadruped, that is, in such a way that the hand and knee of one side are approximated, while those of the other side are separated; in other words, the hand and knee of one side should not move forward simultaneously (Fig. 230). Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
The male monkey makes insulting faces at me, and the quadruped is something of a bully. Even so, Spring -- quickly come
Such strange visions appeared during my delirium, beach demons with claws, odd quadrupeds, wings that staggered through dusk.
Thus, taking the Laughing Hyena as the next illustration, it will be remembered by all students of GOLDSMITH'S _Animated Nature_, that this amiable quadruped invariably exercises his risibles when he is crunching the bones of some other less truculent quadruped. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 04, April 23, 1870
Therefore they are so in dolphins and all the cetacea which have them, and in the oviparous quadrupeds among the scaly animals. On the Generation of Animals
The poet was agitated -- and like a humble bicolored quadruped of the Iole
The principal tame quadrupeds of this country, are horses, cattle, buffaloes, sheep, goats, and hogs The horses are small, never exceeding in size what we call a stout galloway, but they are nimble and spirited, and are reported to have been found here when the Europeans first came round the Cape of Good Hope. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13
This was followed by a work on quadrupeds, completed by his sons. A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES
But how about the preëxisting germs or vital units of the mastodon, the megatherium, and other gigantic mammiferous quadrupeds of the Eocene period? Life: Its True Genesis
Buffaloes and other large African quadrupeds share the territory with elephants. Times, Sunday Times
We should be able to tell the size of his average step, how his chest muscles worked, and if he was truly a quadruped or if he was bipedal.
In the case of larger quadrupeds, birds, fish etc, preparing and eating the item is considerably easier when it is dead.
As a structure it had nothing about it that would attract special attention; it was simply neat, and had an appearance of comfort; but looked at in conjunction with the prettily arranged garden, with its tastefully laid out flower plots, and well stocked beds of vegetive edibles -- and which was protected from the intrusion of quadrupeds by a substantial "pailing fence" -- it was a snug and pleasant residence. Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter
The wolverene, as this strange quadruped is called by zoologists, lives in hollow trees or rocky caves, whence it issues at night and creates great havoc amongst beavers, musk-rats, and other rodents, sometimes fighting with a fox or a wolf for its spoils. The Fur Country
But whereas my distant ancestors were brachiating primates hastily adapted for lives on open plains, hers were dedicated hunters, perhaps forest-dwelling quadrupeds who - God knows how or when - began to use tools.
The ceryx and the purple murex have this organ firm and solid; and just as the myops, or horse-fly, and the oestrus, or gadfly, can pierce the skin of a quadruped, so is that proboscis proportionately stronger in these testaceans; for they bore right through the shells of other shell-fish on which they prey. The History of Animals
These men drilled a long time on what they called a heifer dance -- a beautiful spectacular, and highly moral and instructive quadruped clog, sirloin shuffle, and cow gallop, to the music of a piano-forte. Remarks
THE account which has now been given of the viscera, the stomach, and the other several parts holds equally good not only for the oviparous quadrupeds, but also for such apodous animals as the Serpents. On the Parts of Animals
It's that last part that obtains my hircine quadruped.
At least in quadrupeds, the weight of the lung is only a minor determinant of nonuniform transpulmonary pressures and alveolar volumes.
This I suspect to be the most frequent kind of fluor albus; the former one described at Class I. 1. 2. 11. attends menstruation, or is a discharge instead of it, and thus resembles the venereal orgasm of female quadrupeds. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
During the quadrupedal phase of our evolution, protohuman males copulated protohuman females from behind.
Thirdly, substantial differences are seen between the hip bones of quadrupedal and bipedal primates, involving also the locomotor and postural muscles attached to the hip bones.
It had never heard of those celebrities, and had only been introduced to a cow as a graminivorous, ruminating quadruped with several stomachs. Ten Girls from Dickens
The robotic quadruped will carry up to 400lb across rough terrain. Times, Sunday Times

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