different between quadruped vs hindquarter

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French quadrupède, from Middle French, from Latin stem of quadrup?s (“four-footed, a four-footed animal”), from quadri- (“four-”) + stem of pes (“foot”). Alternatively analyzable as quadru- +? -ped.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kw?d??p?d/

Noun

quadruped (plural quadrupeds)

1. a four-footed or four-legged animal
2. a mammal ambulating on all fours

Synonyms

• tetrapod

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See also

• biped
• Tetrapoda

English

Etymology

hind +? quarter

Noun

hindquarter (plural hindquarters)

1. Either rear half of a side of beef, mutton, veal, lamb or by extension from another edible mammal.
2. (in the plural) The hind biped (leg) of a quadruped, or all body parts situated behind the hind legs' trunk-attachment.

   • While Major was speaking four large rats had crept out of their holes and were sitting on their hindquarters, listening to him.

3. (metonymically, derogatory, usually in the plural) Human behind, butt.

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References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967