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The long and heavy hair growing on the upper side of, or about, the neck of some quadrupedal animals, as the horse, the lion, etc. See Illust. of Horse.

The female of the horse and other equine quadrupeds.

n or climate to another for feeding or breeding; -- said of certain birds, fishes, and quadrupeds.

mutton. Sir H. Sidney. Muttons, beeves, and porkers are good old words for the living quadrupeds. Hallam.

The projecting mouth and nose of a quadruped, as of a horse; a snout.

A small nut; also, the stone of a drupe.

ith small oblong or elliptical leaves, axillary clusters of flowers, and oval, one-seeded drupes. The tree has been cultivated for its fruit for thousands of years, and its branches are the emblems of peace. The wood is yellowish brown and beautifully variegated.

The small, blueblack, drupelike fruit of the Nuttallia cerasiformis, a shrub of Oregon and California, belonging to the Cherry tribe of Rosaceæ.

Feeding on bones; eating bones; as, ossivorous quadrupeds. Derham.

A feline quadruped (Felis irbis, or uncia) resembling the leopard in size, and somewhat in color, but it has longer and thicker fur, which forms a short mane on the back. The ounce is pale yellowish gray, with irregular dark spots on the neck and limbs, and dark rings on the body. It inhabits the lofty mountain ranges…

The male of bovine quadrupeds, especially the domestic animal when castrated and grown to its full size, or nearly so. The word is also applied, as a general name, to any species of bovine animals, male and female. All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field. Ps. viii. 7.

The foot of a quadruped having claws, as the lion, dog, cat, etc.

The strong ligament of the back of the neck in quadrupeds. It connects the back of the skull with dorsal spines of the cervical vertebræ, and helps to support the head. Called also paxywaxy and packwax.

The ripened ovary; the walls of the fruit. See Illusts. of Capsule, Drupe, and Legume.

d in the East and West Indies; also, the plant itself. -- Pigeon plum (Bot.), the edible drupes of two West African species of Chrysobalanus (C. ellipticus and C. luteus). -- Pigeon tremex. (Zoöl.) See under Tremex. -- Pigeon wood (Bot.), a name in the West Indies for the wood of several very different kinds of tree…

The endocarp of a drupe, and its contained seed or seeds; a stone; as, a peach pit; a cherry pit, etc.

with perigynous rosaceous flowers, and a single two-ovuled carpel which usually becomes a drupe in ripening.

The shell of a nut; the stone of a drupe fruit. See Endocarp.

A quadruped, probably the addax, an antelope having a white rump. Deut. xiv. 5.

A nutlet resembling a seed, or the kernel of a drupe. Gray.