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Plantigrade

noun
1.
An animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings.  Synonym: plantigrade mammal.





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"Plantigrade" Quotes from Famous Books



... Notice that he puts his whole foot flat on the ground just as Buster Bear and Bobby Coon do, and just as those two-legged creatures called men do. Very few animals do this, and those that do are said to be plantigrade. Now, Prickly Porky, tell us what you eat and where you make your home, and that will end ...
— The Burgess Animal Book for Children • Thornton W. Burgess


Words linked to "Plantigrade" :   placental mammal, mammal, eutherian, mammalian, digitigrade, eutherian mammal, digitigrade mammal, placental


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