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digitigrade

Meaning of "digitigrade" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF DIGITIGRADE

ˈdɪdʒɪtɪˌɡreɪd


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DIGITIGRADE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Digitigrade can act as a noun and an adjective.
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WHAT DOES DIGITIGRADE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Digitigrade

A digitigrade is an animal that stands or walks on its digits, or toes. Digitigrades include walking birds, cats, dogs, and many other mammals, but not plantigrades or unguligrades. Digitigrades generally move more quickly and quietly than other animals. There are anatomical differences between the limbs of plantigrades, like humans, and both unguligrade and digitigrade limbs. Digitigrade and unguligrade animals have relatively long carpals and tarsals, and the bones which would correspond to the human ankle are thus set much higher in the limb than in a human. In a digitigrade animal, this effectively lengthens the foot, so much so that what are often thought of as a digitigrade animal's "hands" and "feet" correspond only to what would be the bones of the human finger or toe. Humans usually walk with the soles of their feet on the ground, in plantigrade locomotion. In contrast, digitigrade animals walk on their distal and intermediate phalanges. Digitigrade locomotion is responsible for the distinctive hooked shape of dog legs.

Definition of digitigrade in the English dictionary

The definition of digitigrade in the dictionary is walking so that only the toes touch the ground. Other definition of digitigrade is a digitigrade animal.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DIGITIGRADE

anterograde · centigrade · cirrigrade · citigrade · dorsigrade · downgrade · grade · laterigrade · multigrade · orthograde · paygrade · plantigrade · posigrade · retrograde · saltigrade · spinigrade · subgrade · taligrade · tardigrade · unguligrade

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DIGITIGRADE

digitalise · digitalism · digitalization · digitalize · digitally · digitate · digitated · digitately · digitation · digitiform · digitisation · digitised · digitiser · digitization · digitize · digitized · digitizer · digitonin · digitorium · digitoxigenin

WORDS THAT END LIKE DIGITIGRADE

at grade · Belgrade · biodegrade · degrade · first grade · first-grade · fourth grade · H grade · high-grade · low-grade · make the grade · misgrade · on the downgrade · on the upgrade · parade · prograde · regrade · reserve-grade · sixth grade · twelfth-grade · weapons-grade

Synonyms and antonyms of digitigrade in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «digitigrade» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF DIGITIGRADE

Find out the translation of digitigrade to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of digitigrade from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «digitigrade» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

digitígrada
570 millions of speakers
en

English

digitigrade
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

पादाग्रचारी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أصابعي السير
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

пальцеходящие
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

digitigrade
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

digitigrade
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

digitigrade
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Digitigrade
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

digitigrade
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

趾行性の
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

digitigrade
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Digitigrade
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

digitigrade
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

குதிகால் நிலத்தில் படாமல் கால் விரல்களில் நடக்கிற
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

डिजिटिग्रेड
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

digitigrade
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

digitigrade
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

digitigrade
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

пальцеходящие
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

digitigrade
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

digitigrade
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

digitigrade
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

digitigrade
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

digitigrade
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of digitigrade

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DIGITIGRADE»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about digitigrade

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIGITIGRADE»

Discover the use of digitigrade in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to digitigrade and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Sauropods: Evolution and Paleobiology
The metacarpus of Jobaria and neosauropods is arranged into a tightly bound, digitigrade structure that is hypothesized to have contacted the substrate at the metacarpal–phalangeal joints. The metacarpals arranged into a vertical cylinder in ...
Kristina Curry Rogers, Jeffrey A. Wilson, 2005
2
Skulls and Bones: A Guide to the Skeletal Structures and ...
Digitigrade foot position places weight on the phalanges and movement uses only the digits. Most carnivores, such as cats; omnivores, such as dogs; and small herbivores, such as mice, squirrels, and woodchucks, often rely on digitigrade ...
Glenn Searfoss, 1995
3
Popular Science
If by variation, the digitigrade position became gradually, or suddenly, the fixed posture of the foot in progression, the structure of the digits would soon be affected. Provided that the feet were used only in locomotion, the shorter digits would not ...
4
Family Magazine: Or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge
The legs also are completely digitigrade ; that is to say, the heel is elevated, and does not come into contact with the surface, as in man and other similarly formed animals which walk upon the whole sole of the foot, and are thence said to be ...
5
The Popular Science Monthly
If by variation, the digitigrade position became gradually, or suddenly, the fixed posture of the foot in progression, the structure of the digits would soon be affected. Provided that the feet were used only in locomotion, the shorter digits would not ...
6
Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America: Terrestrial ...
Cursorial amphicyonids are long-limbed, long-footed, digitigrade animals but lack the extreme appression of the ... their digitigrade stance: similarly, a number of large amphicyonine amphicyonids are plantigrade, whereas temnocyonines and ...
Christine Marie Janis, Kathleen Marie Scott, Louis L. Jacobs, 1998
7
Popular Science Monthly and World's Advance
If by variation, the digitigrade position became gradually, or suddenly, the fixed posture of the foot in progression, the structure of the digits would soon be affected. Provided that the feet were used only in locomotion, the shorter digits would not ...
8
Thunder-lizards: The Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs
(A) Typical saurischian hindlimb showing digitigrade pes and elevated metatarsus with inferred M. gastrocnemius angle of insertion. (B) Hypothetical sauropod hindlimb retaining primitively digitigrade pes and elevated metatarsus with inferred ...
Virginia Tidwell, Kenneth Carpenter, 2005
9
The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of ...
Generic character. 1 - 1 Dental formula: — incisors, -: D Of these last the three first 6-6 nines, ; ; molars, • . 1—1 5 — 5 are spurious, the fourth is the carnassier, and the rest are tuberculated. Feet, digitigrade ; toes, 5 — 4, with long fal- cular ...
10
Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History
In a digitigrade posture, however, the animal walks on the fingers and toes, and the palm and heel parts of the hands and feet are lifted into the air. Thus the main joint is the joint between the base of the finger/toe bones and the metapodials ...
Xiaoming Wang, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DIGITIGRADE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term digitigrade is used in the context of the following news items.
1
9 Interesting Facts About Your Cat's Paws
Cats are Digitigrade. They navigate through their world on tippy toes. It's about survival and a good meal. Walking and running on toes ups the ... «Catster, Jun 15»
2
Special effects artist 'fauns' over latest project
Harris creates haunted illusions for Utah scare attractions and her latest project brings a fantasy character to life with digitigrade stilts and ... «Daily Herald, May 15»
3
Meet the fastest robot in the world
Most birds are digitigrade animals, which means that they walk on their toes, not the entire feet – and all their bones are perfectly suited for this ... «ZME Science, Mar 15»
4
Declawing of cat is inhumane procedure
Cats are digitigrade mammals — they walk on their toes. Declawing a cat destroys its ability to move comfortably the way nature intended. «Columbus Dispatch, Feb 15»
5
The Weird Science Behind Your Cat's Paws
Cats are digitigrade walkers, which means that instead of walking on the heels and the balls of the feet like we do, they walk on the balls of the ... «Catster, Feb 15»
6
Meet Spot: Boston Dynamics's kickable robot dog
The legs are also backwards angled (more digitigrade) like a horse or dog, where Big Dog's legs are forward bending. In the video, Spot is ... «SiliconANGLE, Feb 15»
7
The tiger truths
This is because cats are digitigrade: They walk on their toes, giving their bodies a forward thrust that means they are built for speed and stealth. «Livemint, Jan 15»
8
Elder Scrolls 6 Argonia: Elsweyr – 'The Other Place'
They sport a feline appearance as well as a tail, and some of them might be walking around in a digitigrade—tiptoed—stance. They make up ... «Bitbag, Sep 14»
9
18 things you didn't know about dog paws
Dogs are digitigrade animals, meaning that their digits — not their heels — take most of their weight when they walk. Because of this, dogs' toe ... «Mother Nature Network, Jun 14»
10
5 Cool Things to see at the Gadget Show Live 2014
... 2014 you should swing by the DigiLegs stand to see some ultra-cool stilts that will turn your legs into the hind quarters of a digitigrade animal. «Gadget Helpline, Apr 14»
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