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