DIGITIGRADE MAMMAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does digitigrade mammal mean? 

• DIGITIGRADE MAMMAL (noun)
  The noun DIGITIGRADE MAMMAL has 1 sense:

1. an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses

  Familiarity information: DIGITIGRADE MAMMAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIGITIGRADE MAMMAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

digitigrade; digitigrade mammal

Hypernyms ("digitigrade mammal" is a kind of...):

eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)

Antonym:

plantigrade mammal (an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings)