Digitigrade synonyms

dĭj'ĭ-tĭ-grād'

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digitigrade mammal
an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses
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plantigrade mammal (antonym)
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plantigrade (antonym)
Walking on the whole sole, as a human or bear
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Digitigrade Sentence Examples

  • The typical Phenacodus primaevus, of the Lower or Wasatch Eocene of North America, was a relatively small ungulate, of slight build, with straight limbs each terminating in five complete toes, and walking in the digitigrade fashion of the modern tapir.

  • The horse is eminently " digitigrade," standing on the extremity of the single digit of each foot, which is kept habitually in a position approaching to vertical.

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