digitigrade
英 ['dɪdʒɪtɪgreɪd] 美 ['dɪdʒɪtəˌgreɪd]

adj.

趾行的，趾行类的；

n.

趾行动物；

英英释义

digitigrade[ 'didʒitiɡreid ]

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

  同义词：digitigrade mammal

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

权威例句

Plantigrade to digitigrade evolution of equids
Ruminants digitigrades ou superfamille des Tylopodes
Chapter 3 - Digitigrades (Intermediate-Speed Land Animals)
The Digitigrade Hand and Terrestrial Adaptation in Japanese Macaques
Chapter 3 – Digitigrades (Intermediate-Speed Land Animals)
Posture and stance of Triceratops: evidence of digitigrade manus and cantilever vertebral column
Effets du port de semelles proprioceptives pendant 6 mois sur la marche digitigrade idiopathique: une étude randomisée
Different functional mechanisms of foot-footpad complex for plantigrade and digitigrade mammals in the context of locomotion
Not so fast: speed effects on forelimb kinematics in cercopithecine monkeys and implications for digitigrade postures in primates
Relationship between humeral geometry and shoulder muscle power among suspensory, knuckle-walking, and digitigrade/palmigrade quadru...