quadrupedal

ADJECTIVE
  1. having four feet
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How To Use quadrupedal In A Sentence

  • Griffons were pony-sized, quadrupedal avians with such a reputation for savagery that they had been banned from all the Northern mountain provinces.
  • The ankylosaurs were heavily armoured dinosaurs, 2 to 10 meters long, quadrupedal, slow moving, and fed on swampy soft vegetation.
  • 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]
  • All these animals had acquired adaptations for quadrupedal climbing similar to those of the modern young hoatzin, a bird native to tropical South America.
  • 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
  • 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).
  • Thus, problems with stegosaur tracks possibly stem from the expectation of their quadrupedality. Neoceratopsian publications for 2008
  • The ornithopod dinosaurs that left these tracks may have been quadrupedal, walking on all fours.
  • The black uakari is predominantly quadrupedal - walking, running and leaping with great frequency.
  • 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
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