four-limbed

Humanity being created in the image of God doesn't mean that God is a four-limbed almost-hairless ape.

Barney Teaches a "Scientific Fact" 2007

Not necessarily Gort-style, four-limbed monsters who walk upright, but robotic weaponry that can be guided by geeks at a safe distance.

Matthew Yglesias » You And What Recruiting Pool? 2007

Their annual lifestyle is apparently unique or almost so among the ~28,300 species of four-limbed vertebrates tetrapods that normally have perennial life spans.

Which lives longer, the chameleon or the egg? AYDIN 2008

Their annual lifestyle is apparently unique or almost so among the ~28,300 species of four-limbed vertebrates tetrapods that normally have perennial life spans.

Archive 2008-07-01 AYDIN 2008

Amphibians like this one -- in the large category of four-limbed creatures called tetrapods -- stand near the base of the evolutionary tree, between the fish that came before them and the birds and mammals that followed.

BETWEEN SWIMMING AND CRAWLING 2007

He pushed off from the cage and began climbing away like a four-limbed spider.

Sun of Suns 2006

I remembered Zak as he had been when I had seen him first in the hold: fallow-hued, with a shaggy coat that was not of hair or feathers; four-limbed and tailless, and surely headless as well.

The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987

On this world, you can see for yourself the higher animals are four-limbed.

The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978

"By what possible course of selection and mutation can a four-limbed vertebrate occupy the same planet as a six-legged one?"

Anywhen Blish, James 1970

It was four-limbed, its body silvery -- and it was large.

The Defiant Agents Andre Norton 1958