digitigrade
/dij-i-ti-greyd/US // ˈdɪdʒ ɪ tɪˌgreɪd //UK // (ˈdɪdʒɪtɪˌɡreɪd) //
残疾人,残疾人协会,残疾人组织,残疾人事业
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : walking on the toes, as most quadruped mammals.
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a digitigrade animal.
Examples
It is digitigrade: it has five toes on the fore, and four toes on its hinder feet; its marsupial bones are simply rudimental.
The feet are digitigrade, usually with five (in one instance four) front and always four hind-toes.
The much persecuted otter presents himself to our notice among the worm-bodied, digitigrade animals.
The pes is digitigrade or plantigrade, and has three, rarely four, digits.
The feet are digitigrade and provided with long pointed claws.
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