| 单词 | plantigrade |
| 释义 | plantigrade (once / 75765 pages) adjn WORD FAMILY plantigrade: plantigrades USAGE EXAMPLESBears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects. Webster, Noah, Webster's Unabridged Dictionary—(2n...(2012) Posterior Limb of the Horse placed in the Position which it should occupy if the Animal Were a Plantigrade: Left Limb, External Surface 89 48. Cuyer, ?douard, Artistic Anatomy of Animals(2011) The badger is a plantigrade, that is, when travelling he puts down the whole of his foot, including the heel, flat on the ground. Pease, Alfred E., The Badger—A Monograph(2011) 1adj (of mammals) walking on the whole sole of the foot (as rabbits, raccoons, bears, and humans do) Ant digitigrade (of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do) 2n an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings Syn|Ant|Hyper plantigrade mammal digitigrade, digitigrade mammal an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials |
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