tetrapod
IPA: tɛtrʌpɑd
noun
- Any vertebrate with four limbs.
- Any vertebrate (such as birds or snakes) that has evolved from early tetrapods; especially any member of the superclass Tetrapoda
- A concrete structure with arms, used to arrest wave energy along the shore in sea defence projects.
adjective
- Having four limbs or feet
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Examples of "tetrapod" in Sentences
- It was then declared a tetrapod.
- It has a large tetrapod like head.
- On the origin of the tetrapod limb.
- Bat wings are modified tetrapod forelimbs.
- Toes are the digits of the foot of a tetrapod.
- The four tetrapod classes are SO antediluvian.
- It is the first Devonian tetrapod to be found in Asia.
- The lungs of lungfish are homologous to the lungs of tetrapods.
- This was the period of greatest tetrapod evolutionary radiation.
- The homologies of frontal and parietal bones are in fishes and tetrapods.
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