quadruped
Dog or horse
A quadruped is an animal that walks on four feet—dogs, horses, cattle, and most mammals.
The term appears mainly in technical or formal contexts; in ordinary speech, people say four-legged animal.
As an adjective, quadruped describes four-footed locomotion: quadruped robots mimicking animal movement.
Four-limbed vertebrate animal
- mammalWarm-blooded, milk-producing animal
- vertebrateSpinal column animal
- ungulateMammal with hooves
- felineOf or like cats
canine · equine · bovine · ovine · caprine · cervine · carnivore · herbivore
Ungulate foot coverings
- pawsAnimal feet
- clawsAnimal gripping nails
- forelegsAnimal's anterior limbs
- hindlegsRear locomotive appendages
haunches · withers · fetlock · pastern · hock · flank · spine · tail
gallop
Swiftest quadruped gait
pace · gait · stride · bound · leap · scamper · lope · prance · saunter · prowl
tetrapod
Four-limbed vertebrate animal
- mammalWarm-blooded, milk-producing animal
- vertebrateSpinal column animal
- ungulateMammal with hooves
feline · canine · equine · bovine · ovine · caprine · cervine · carnivore · herbivore · omnivore
dog
Domesticated barking mammal
cow · deer · lion · tiger · bear · wolf · zebra · giraffe · rhinoceros · hippopotamus
hooves
Ungulate foot coverings
hindlegs · haunches · withers · fetlock · pastern · hock · flank · spine · tail · muzzle
griffin
Legendary eagle-lion hybrid
- sphinxMysterious, unreadable person
- centaurHalf-human, half-equine being
- chimeraUnrealistic fantasy or hybrid
cerberus · unicorn · pegasus · minotaur · basilisk · behemoth · hellhound · manticore · jackalope
footing
Secure ground position
stance · gait · grounded · sure-footed · steady · planted · braced · crouched · poised · low-slung
- things with legshuman, dog, cat, horse, cow
- biology termscell, DNA, genetics, genetic, evolution
- zoologymammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, insects
- leg countstwo legs, four legs, hexapod, octopod, eight legs
- foursfour elements, four directions, four corners, four suits, four horsemen
- living thingsplants, animals, animal, creature, birds
quadrupedbiped
Two-footed creature
two-legged · two-footed · hexapod · six-legged · octopod