quadruped

Other forms of quadruped

plural

quadrupeds·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about quadruped

What does quadruped mean?

quadruped means "an animal especially a mammal having four limbs specialized for walking". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in quadruped?

quadruped has 3 syllables and divides as qua-dru-ped under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for quadruped?

Close synonyms include quadrupedal, four-footed. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of quadruped?

The recorded antonyms are biped.

Is quadruped a common word?

quadruped is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.