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DIGITIGRADE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("digitigrade" is a kind of...):

eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do)

Classified under:

Adjectives

Domain category:

mammal; mammalian (any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk)

Antonym:

plantigrade ((of mammals) walking on the whole sole of the foot (as rabbits, raccoons, bears, and humans do))

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