fourleggedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (adjective) IPA: /fɔː(ɹ)ˈlɛɡɪd/, /ˈfɔː(ɹ)lɛɡd/
• (noun) IPA: /fɔː(ɹ)ˈlɛɡɪd/
• 韻: (noun) -ɛɡɪd

形容詞

four-legged (not comparable)

1. Having four legs.

同意語

• quadruped, quadrupedal

派生語

• four-legged friend

名詞

four-legged (plural four-leggeds)

1. An animal that walks on four legs.
   • 2000, Clyde Holler, The Black Elk Reader, →ISBN, page 195:

     The four-leggeds blamed the cleansing on the humans, and decided to destroy all two-leggeds.

   • 2011, Cynthia Dawn, Indigena: A Novel Celebrating the Spirit of Cinco De Mayo, →ISBN, page 113:

     We were talking about how Catolicos seemed to not see the one-leggeds and four-leggeds as sacred.

   • 2013, Vine Deloria Jr., edited by James Treat, For This Land: Writings on Religion in America, →ISBN, page 238:

     It was a serious race, for the two-leggeds—human beings and birds—were racing the four-leggeds to determine which should feed the others.

2. An intersection where two roads cross.
   • 1998, Accident Models for Two-lane Rural Roads: Segments and Intersections:

     With respect to hazard rating, an opposite and possibly inconsistent explanation might be offered: It may be that drivers underestimate roadside hazards at three-leggeds and relatively speaking overestimate them at four-leggeds.

参考

• bipedal
• decapodal
• octopodous
• three-legged
• two-footed
• two-legged