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tetrapods

tetrapods is the plural of tetrapod.

Meaning of tetrapod

Noun

tetrapod (plural tetrapods)

  1. Any item with four arms or four feet, such as a light stand, a gun mount, etc.
    1. A concrete structure with arms, used to arrest wave energy along the shore in sea defence projects.
  2. Any vertebrate with four limbs.
  3. Any member of the superclass Tetrapoda
  4. Any vertebrate (such as birds or snakes) that has evolved from early tetrapods

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Questions about tetrapods

What is tetrapods the plural of?
Tetrapods is the plural of tetrapod.

Words near tetrapods in the dictionary

  1. tetrapodic
  2. tetrapodies
  3. tetrapodomorph
  4. tetrapodomorphs
  5. tetrapodous
  6. tetrapods
  7. tetrapody
  8. tetrapolar
  9. tetrapolarity
  10. tetrapoleis
  11. tetrapolis

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