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PLANTIGRADE MAMMAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does plantigrade mammal mean?
• PLANTIGRADE MAMMAL (noun)
The noun PLANTIGRADE MAMMAL 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 MAMMAL used as a noun 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 mammal" is a kind of...):
eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)
Antonym:
digitigrade mammal (an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses)
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