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PLANTIGRADE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings
Synonyms:
plantigrade; plantigrade mammal
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("plantigrade" is a kind of...):
eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of mammals) walking on the whole sole of the foot (as rabbits, raccoons, bears, and humans do)
Classified under:
Domain category:
mammal; mammalian (any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk)
Antonym:
digitigrade ((of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do))
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