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Definition of Plantigrade
1. Adjective. (of mammals) walking on the whole sole of the foot (as rabbits, raccoons, bears, and humans do).
2. Noun. An animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings.
Generic synonyms: Eutherian, Eutherian Mammal, Placental, Placental Mammal
Antonyms: Digitigrade Mammal
Definition of Plantigrade
1. a. Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades.
2. n. A plantigrade animal, or one that walks or steps on the sole of the foot, as man, and the bears.
Definition of Plantigrade
1. Adjective. (context: of an animal) walking with the entire sole of the foot on the ground. ¹
2. Noun. A plantigrade animal ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Plantigrade
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Medical Definition of Plantigrade
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Plantigrade
Literary usage of Plantigrade
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1896)
"Probably the facility of ascending and descending hills with the feet plantigrade
is mainly one of balance and practice. ..."
2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"... supported on strong plantigrade live-toed fore and hind limbs of equal size,
and with a heavy long tail. The teeth are long, spatulate, and spreading. ..."
3. The Cat: An Introduction to the Study of Backboned Animals, Especially Mammals by St. George Jackson Mivart (1881)
"It may therefore be said to be plantigrade. It was originally made known to
science, and named in a paper published by Mr. ET Bennett. ..."
4. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"... tribe Semi.plantigrade, and Order Carnívora. See Mammalia. BARANGAN. MALAY.
Sulphuret of Arsenic. ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"It is now possible to define the suborder Hyracoidea as including ungulates with
a centrale in the carpus, plantigrade feet, in which the first and fifth ..."
6. Some Curious Flyers, Creepers and Swimmers by James Johonnot (1888)
"plantigrade RANGERS OF FIELD AND FOREST. 1. THE bear is not the only dweller of
the wilds that shuffles along with the whole foot planted squarely upon the ..."
7. Catalogue of Carnivorous, Pachydermatous, and Edentate Mammalia in the by John Edward Gray (1869)
"A. plantigrade. Hind feet broad, depressed; soles bald, callous nearly to the
heel; toes short, thick; claws thick. Body heavy; tail short; ears short, ..."
8. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1896)
"Probably the facility of ascending and descending hills with the feet plantigrade
is mainly one of balance and practice. ..."
9. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"... supported on strong plantigrade live-toed fore and hind limbs of equal size,
and with a heavy long tail. The teeth are long, spatulate, and spreading. ..."
10. The Cat: An Introduction to the Study of Backboned Animals, Especially Mammals by St. George Jackson Mivart (1881)
"It may therefore be said to be plantigrade. It was originally made known to
science, and named in a paper published by Mr. ET Bennett. ..."
11. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"... tribe Semi.plantigrade, and Order Carnívora. See Mammalia. BARANGAN. MALAY.
Sulphuret of Arsenic. ..."
12. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"It is now possible to define the suborder Hyracoidea as including ungulates with
a centrale in the carpus, plantigrade feet, in which the first and fifth ..."
13. Some Curious Flyers, Creepers and Swimmers by James Johonnot (1888)
"plantigrade RANGERS OF FIELD AND FOREST. 1. THE bear is not the only dweller of
the wilds that shuffles along with the whole foot planted squarely upon the ..."
14. Catalogue of Carnivorous, Pachydermatous, and Edentate Mammalia in the by John Edward Gray (1869)
"A. plantigrade. Hind feet broad, depressed; soles bald, callous nearly to the
heel; toes short, thick; claws thick. Body heavy; tail short; ears short, ..."
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