plantigrade
an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings • Syn: plantigrade mammal • Ant: digitigrade mammal (for: plantigrade mammal) • Hypernyms: placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal
(of mammals) walking on the whole sole of the foot (as rabbits, raccoons, bears, and humans do) • Ant: digitigrade • Topics: mammal, mammalian
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