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Yeah. Terms like "fish" and "tree" are more like "quadruped" than they are like "rodent".
by pavel_lishin 1y ago
Yeah. Terms like "fish" and "tree" are more like "quadruped" than they are like "rodent".
- IAmBroom 1y agoExcept that "quadruped" is (AFAIK) phylogenetic: Tetrapoda.
- pavel_lishin 1y ago> * tetrapod (/ˈtɛtrəˌpɒd/;[4] from Ancient Greek τετρα- (tetra-) 'four' and πούς (poús) 'foot') is any four-limbed vertebrate animal of the clade Tetrapoda (/tɛˈtræpədə/).* Huh. I always thought it was a more generic term for any four-limbed animal. TIL, I guess!
- IAmBroom 1y agoHonestly, I can't think of a non-tetrapod animal that is four-limbed. I mean, unless you cut one leg off a starfish.
- ndsipa_pomu 1y agoExcept that you can come up with a decent definition of "fish" and "quadruped", whereas there's no definition of "tree" that covers all the cases. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/how-do-you-define-a-tree/557135/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/how-do-y...