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digitaria |
digitaria ischaemum |
digitaria sanguinalis |
digitate |
digitately |
digitigrade
| digitigrade mammal
| digitisation
| digitise
| digitiser
| digitization
digitigrade
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun digitigrade has 1 sense
- digitigrade(n = noun.animal) digitigrade mammal - an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses; Array is a kind of eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal
Adjective digitigrade has 1 sense
OXFORD DICTIONARY
digitigrade, adj. & n. Zool.
--adj. (of an animal) walking on its toes and not touching the ground with its heels, e.g. dogs, cats, and rodents.
--n. a digitigrade animal (cf. PLANTIGRADE).
--adj. (of an animal) walking on its toes and not touching the ground with its heels, e.g. dogs, cats, and rodents.
--n. a digitigrade animal (cf. PLANTIGRADE).
Etymology
F f. L digitus + -gradus -walking
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