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Digitigrade

noun
1.
An animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses.  Synonym: digitigrade mammal.






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"Digitigrade" Quotes from Famous Books



... are much less blade-like, this style of tooth being better adapted to their omnivorous food habits. Bears, furthermore, have five digits on each foot and are plantigrade, while dogs have but four toes behind and are digitigrade. These differences are less marked in some of the smaller arctoids, which may have as few as thirty-two teeth, and come very near to dogs in the extent of the digital surface which rests ...
— American Big Game in Its Haunts • Various



Words linked to "Digitigrade" :   placental, mammal, mammalian, placental mammal, plantigrade mammal, plantigrade, eutherian mammal, eutherian



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