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Definition of Quadrupeds
1. quadruped [n] - See also: quadruped
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quadrupeds
Literary usage of Quadrupeds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Earth, and Animated Natureby Oliver Goldsmith, Washington Irving by Oliver Goldsmith, Washington Irving (1854)
"From being rivals, quadrupeds have now become the assistants of man ... In taking
a cursory view of the form of quadrupeds, we may easily perceive that of ..."
2. The Descent of man and selection in relation to sex by Charles Darwin (1909)
"This being the case, it is improbable that the unions of quadrupeds in a state
... Quadrupeds use their voices for various purposes, as a signal of danger, ..."
3. Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the by Charles Lyell, Gérard Paul Deshayes (1832)
"It was, therefore, in a truly philosophical spirit that, relying on the clearness
of the evidence obtained respecting the larger quadrupeds, he ventured to ..."
4. Essay on the Theory of the Earth by Georges Cuvier, Robert Jameson, Samuel Latham Mitchill (1818)
"In quadrupeds, on the contrary, even when their entire skeletons are found, there
is great difficulty in discovering their distinguishing characters, ..."
5. Essay on the Theory of the Earth by Georges Cuvier, Robert Jameson (1817)
"Naturalists certainly have neither explored all the continents, nor do they as
yet know even all the quadrupeds of those parts which have been explored. ..."
6. American Book Prices Current (1921)
"(with Quadrupeds of North America, 3 vols., together II vols.), Meirs, G., Nov.
19, '19. (18) $250.00. Mor., ge, Platt, H., Feb. 19, '20. (451) $374.00. ..."
7. Physical Geography by Mary Somerville, Henry Walter Bates (1870)
"European quadrupeds; changes effected in animals through civilization; wild
quadrupeds of Europe; some animals limited to certain elevations, ..."
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