digitigrade

From French digitigrade, from Latin digitus (“finger, toe, digit”) + gradus (“step; pace”); compare New Latin digitigradus.

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dĭʹjĭtĭgrād', IPA^(key): /ˈdɪdʒɪtɪˌɡɹeɪd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪdʒətəɡɹeɪd/, /-ɾə/
• Hyphenation: di‧gi‧ti‧grade

digitigrade (not comparable)

1. (zoology) 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.
2. (zoology) Of feet or a manner of walking: of, resembling, or pertaining to that of a digitigrade animal.
3. (zoology, specifically) Belonging to the Digitigrada of the taxonomic order Carnivora.

• digitigradism

digitigrade (plural digitigrades)

1. (zoology, chiefly in the plural) A digitigrade animal; an animal that walks on its toes, such as a cat or a dog.

• plantigrade
• unguligrade

• “digitigrade, a. and n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.

• digitigrade on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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digitigrade (plural digitigrades)

1. digitigrade

digitigrade m (plural digitigrades)

1. digitigrade

• “digitigrade” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

digitigrade

1. feminine plural of digitigrado

digitigrāde

1. vocative masculine singular of digitigrādus