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Definition of Tetrapod

Tetrapod
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.

Meaning of Tetrapod from wikipedia

- A tetrapod (/ˈtɛtrəˌpɒd/; from Ancient Gr**** τετρα- (tetra-) 'four' and πούς (poús) 'foot') is any four-limbed vertebrate animal of the clade Tetrapoda...
- up tetrapod in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A tetrapod is a four-limbed animal of the superclass Tetrapoda. Tetrapod may also refer to: Tetrapod (structure)...
- A tetrapod is a form of wave-dissipating concrete block used to prevent erosion caused by weather and longs**** drift, primarily to enforce coastal structures...
- entire clade but only aquatic members that are not tetrapods, i.e. a paraphyletic group. Non-tetrapod sarcopterygians were once the dominant predators of...
- evolution of tetrapods began about 400 million years ago in the Devonian Period with the earliest tetrapods evolved from lobe-finned fishes. Tetrapods (under...
- Tetrapod Spools was an Encinitas, California, USA based independent record label founded in Oak Park, Illinois in 1969 by Louie Easley Hanley and Mark...
- Carboniferous tetrapods include amphibians and reptiles that lived during the Carboniferous Period. Though stem-tetrapods originated in the preceding...
- consisting of tetrapods (four-limbed vertebrates) and their closest sarcopterygian relatives that are more closely related to living tetrapods than to living...
- about 375 Mya (million years ago), having many features akin to those of tetrapods (four-legged animals). Tiktaalik is estimated to have had a total length...
- fish. Bony fish include the lobe-finned fish, which gave rise to the tetrapods, the animals with four limbs. Despite their success, vertebrates still...