digitigrade

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses
• Syn:
digitigrade mammal
• Ant:
plantigrade mammal (for: digitigrade mammal)
• Hypernyms:
placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal

II - adjective

(of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do)
• Ant:
plantigrade
• Topics:
mammal, mammalian

• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  plantigrade, plantigrade mammal