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adj. Relating to an animal, such as a horse, cat, or dog, whose weight is borne on the toes.

adj. Walking on the toes, putting the weight of the body mainly on the ball of the foot, with the back of the foot, or heel, raised.

adj. Belonging to the Digitigrada of the taxonomic order Carnivora.

adj. Of, resembling, or pertaining to that of a digitigrade animal.

n. A digitigrade animal, such as a dog or a cat; an animal that walks on its toes.

adj. Walking on the toes; -- distinguished from plantigrade.

n. An animal that walks on its toes, as the cat, lion, wolf, etc.; -- distinguished from a plantigrade, which walks on the palm of the foot.

Walking on the toes, with the heel raised from the ground; not stepping on the whole sole of the foot: applied chiefly to carnivorous quadrupeds, and opposed to plantigrade, but without special reference to the Digitigrada as framed by Cuvier. Most quadrupeds are digitigrade. Specifically

Of or pertaining to the Digitigrada; having the characters of the Digitigrada.

n. One of the Digitigrada.

n. an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses

adj. (of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do)

"The supposed stegosaurian track Deltapodus Whyte & Romano, 1994 (Middle Jurassic of England) is sauropod-like, elongate and plantigrade, but many blunt-toed, digitigrade, large ornithopod-like footprints (including pedal print cast associated with the manus of Stegopodus Lockley & Hunt, 1998) from the Upper Jurassic of Utah, better fit the stegosaurian foot pattern."

plantigrade   

eutherian    placental mammal    eutherian mammal    placental   

digitigradism