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Definition of Plantigrades
1. plantigrade [n] - See also: plantigrade
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plantigrades
Literary usage of Plantigrades
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"Of the Semi-plantigrades at large Jerdon remarks: " None of them have more than
one true molar above and another below, which, however, ..."
2. Life-history of Our Planet by William Dickey Gunning (1876)
"... and Origin of the Insectivorous Orders, of Herbivorous Orders, of Carnivorous
Orders—History of the Feet and Origin of the plantigrades ..."
3. The Journal of the Linnean Society by Linnean Society of London (1857)
"In the plantigrades ... It has heen usual to place the plantigrades at the head
of the Carnivora, ..."
4. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1827)
"It has, by turns, been attached to the Carnassiers, the plantigrades, and the
Quadrumana ; while, at the same time, it was acknowledged that, ..."
5. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1863)
"... or seals; the bears constituting the plantigrades, the seals the ... in the
cats wanting, and in tho plantigrades in the same range as the others; ..."
6. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"Of the Semi-plantigrades at large Jerdon remarks: " None of them have more than
one true molar above and another below, which, however, ..."
7. Life-history of Our Planet by William Dickey Gunning (1876)
"... and Origin of the Insectivorous Orders, of Herbivorous Orders, of Carnivorous
Orders—History of the Feet and Origin of the plantigrades ..."
8. The Journal of the Linnean Society by Linnean Society of London (1857)
"In the plantigrades ... It has heen usual to place the plantigrades at the head
of the Carnivora, ..."
9. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1827)
"It has, by turns, been attached to the Carnassiers, the plantigrades, and the
Quadrumana ; while, at the same time, it was acknowledged that, ..."
10. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1863)
"... or seals; the bears constituting the plantigrades, the seals the ... in the
cats wanting, and in tho plantigrades in the same range as the others; ..."
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