nnoun.animalan animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horsesSynset:digitigrade mammal
Antonyms:plantigrade mammal
Hypernyms:eutherian eutherian mammal placental placental mammal
Inherited Hypernyms:digitigrade mammalplacentalmammalvertebratechordateanimalorganismliving thingwholeobjectphysical entityentity
adjadj.all(of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do)Topic:mammalmammalian
Antonyms:plantigrade
Inherited Hypernyms:digitigrade