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PLANTIGRADE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does plantigrade mean?
• PLANTIGRADE (noun)
The noun PLANTIGRADE has 1 sense:
1. an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings
Familiarity information: PLANTIGRADE used as a noun is very rare.
• PLANTIGRADE (adjective)
The adjective PLANTIGRADE has 1 sense:
1. (of mammals) walking on the whole sole of the foot (as rabbits, raccoons, bears, and humans do)
Familiarity information: PLANTIGRADE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
plantigrade; plantigrade mammal
Hypernyms ("plantigrade" is a kind of...):
eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of mammals) walking on the whole sole of the foot (as rabbits, raccoons, bears, and humans do)
Domain category:
mammal; mammalian (any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk)
Antonym:
digitigrade ((of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do))
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