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A vertebrate animal having four feet or legs or leglike appendages
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tetrapod
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In coastal engineering , a tetrapod is a tetrahedral concrete structure used as armour unit on breakwaters . A tetrapod's shape is designed to dissipate the force of incoming waves by allowing water to flow around rather than against it, and to reduce displacement ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tetrapod \Tet"ra*pod\, n. [Gr. ? fourfooted; te`tra- (see Tetra- ) + ?, ?, foot.] (Zo["o]l.) An insect characterized by having but four perfect legs, as certain of the butterflies.
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n. a vertebrate animal having four feet or legs or leglike appendages
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Having four limbs or feet n. 1 Any vertebrate with four limbs. 2 Any vertebrate (such as birds or snakes) that have evolved from early tetrapods; especially all members of the superclass ''Tetrapoda'' 3 Concrete structures with 'arms' used to arrest ...
Usage examples of tetrapod.
All the new animals were built on the ancient tetrapod body plan, inherited from the first wheezing fish to have crawled out of the mud.
When the wind was right, she could hear large amphibians roaring on the banks of rivers, and the little tetrapods peeped or trilled in their courting seasons, but most of the noise here came from wind, water, and foliage.
In particular they sought lobe-finned fish of the type that presumably were ancestral to us and all other walking creatures, known as tetrapods.
Dr Narlikar neared the place where, with the Municipal Corporation's permission, he had arranged for a single, symbolic tetrapod to be placed upon the sea‑.
Why, little by little, did the vision of full‑sized concrete tetrapods marching over sea walk, four‑legged conquerors triumphing over the sea, capture him as surely as it had the gleaming doctor?
I tell you, my friend: you and I and our tetrapods: from the very oceans we shall bring forth soil!
Dinosaurs, whales, birds, humans, even fish—all are tetrapods, which clearly suggests they come from a single common ancestor.
Ninomiya is on a bluff in the middle of a town, and the beach below it is a narrow strip of sand chockablock with giant concrete tetrapods, looking like vastly magnified skeletons of plankton and intended to keep waves from washing up onto the busy coastal highway that runs between the beach and the station.