单词 | digitigrade |
释义 | digitigrade (once / 241211 pages) nadj WORD FAMILY digitigrade: digitigrades USAGE EXAMPLESIt is necessary among the ruminants to make an exception of the camel and the llama, which are digitigrades. Cuyer, ?douard, Artistic Anatomy of Animals(2011) Limbs short, partially digitigrade, with the feet rounded and the toes short, with compressed, acute, semi-retractile claws. Various, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edit...(2010) "Gringalet belongs to the carnivorous type, called by naturalists Digitigrades." Gillmore, Parker, Adventures of a Young Naturalist(2010) 1n an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses Syn|Ant|Hyper digitigrade mammal plantigrade, plantigrade mammal an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials 2adj (of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do) Ant plantigrade (of mammals) walking on the whole sole of the foot (as rabbits, raccoons, bears, and humans do) |
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