digitigrade

English - Turkish

Definition of digitigrade in English Turkish dictionary: parmaklarına basarak yürüyen (hayvan); parmaklarına basarak yürüyen; (Tıp) Ayak parmakları üzerinde yürüyen, bu tarz yürüme gösteren (Bazı hayvanlarda olduğu gibi)

English - English

Definition of digitigrade in English English dictionary: Belonging to the Digitigrada of the taxonomic order Carnivora; Of, resembling, or pertaining to that of a digitigrade animal; A digitigrade animal, such as a dog or a cat; an animal that walks on its toes; 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; distinguished from a plantigrade, which walks on the palm of the foot; A digitigrade animal, such as a dog or a cat, walks on their toes; An animal that walks on its toes, as the cat, lion, wolf, etc; Walking on the toes; distinguished from plantigrade; {s} walking only on the toes of the feet (as in four-footed animals); (of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised
digitigrade mammal: dogs and cats and horses
digitigrade mammal: an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e

digitigrade

Hyphenation

dig·i·ti·grade

() From French digitigrade (Modern Latin digitigradus), from Latin digitus (“finger, toe, digit”) (whence English digit) + gradus (“step”, “pace”).

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