What is "digitigrade" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does digitigrade mean in English? Meaning of digitigrade definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "digitigrade" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "digitigrade": an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses

Noun

  • Meaning: an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses
  • Synonyms: digitigrade digitigrade mammal
  • Hypernyms: eutherian eutherian mammal placental placental mammal
  • Antonyms: plantigrade plantigrade mammal
  • Meaning of "digitigrade": (of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do)

    Adjective

  • Meaning: (of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do)
  • Synonyms: digitigrade
  • Antonyms: plantigrade
  • Adjective: (of an animal) Walking on the toes, putting the weight of the body mainly on the ball of the foot, with the back of the foot, or heel, raised.(zoology, specifically) Belonging to the Digitigrada of the taxonomic order Carnivora.(of feet or a manner of walking) Of, resembling, or pertaining to that of a digitigrade animal.
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