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Tetrapod

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Noun

1. tetrapod

a vertebrate animal having four feet or legs or leglike appendages

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Tetrapod

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noun
1. 
any vertebrate that has four limbs
2. Also called: caltrop
a device consisting of four arms radiating from a central point, each at about 109° to the others, so that regardless of its position on a surface, three arms form a supporting tripod and the fourth is vertical
3. engineering
a very large cast concrete structure of a similar shape piled in large numbers round breakwaters and sea defence systems to dissipate the energy of the waves

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Tetrapod

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noun
any vertebrate having four legs or limbs, including the mammals, birds, and reptiles

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Tetrapod

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n.
1. Any of numerous organisms of the group Tetrapoda, usually characterized as those species that have four limbs with digits and those, such as whales and snakes, that are descended from such species. Tetrapoda includes the amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.
2. A vertebrate animal with four feet, legs, or leglike appendages.

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