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TETRAPOD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tetrapod mean?
• TETRAPOD (noun)
The noun TETRAPOD has 1 sense:
1. a vertebrate animal having four feet or legs or leglike appendages
Familiarity information: TETRAPOD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A vertebrate animal having four feet or legs or leglike appendages
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("tetrapod" is a kind of...):
craniate; vertebrate (animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tetrapod"):
quadruped (an animal especially a mammal having four limbs specialized for walking)
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