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digitigrade

Syllables: di·gi·ti·gradeUK/ˈdɪd͡ʒɪtɪˌɡɹeɪd/US/ˈdɪd͡ʒətəɡɹeɪd/

digitigrade adjective: of an animal: walking on the toes, putting the weight of the body mainly on the ball of the foot, with the back of the foot, or heel, raised.

Adjective

digitigrade (not comparable)

  1. Of an animal: walking on the toes, putting the weight of the body mainly on the ball of the foot, with the back of the foot, or heel, raised.
  2. Of feet or a manner of walking: of, resembling, or pertaining to that of a digitigrade animal.
  3. (obsolete, specifically) Belonging to the Digitigrada of the taxonomic order Carnivora.

Noun

digitigrade (plural digitigrades)

  1. (in plural) A digitigrade animal; an animal that walks on its toes, such as a cat or a dog.

digitigrade meaning in Tamil, Malay and Indonesian

digitigrade in Tamil

விரல் நடை, விரல்நடையான

digitigrade in Malay

animal that walks on its toes
pejalan jari, digitigrad

digitigrade in Indonesian

walking on the toes
digitigrad
animal that walks on its toes
digitigrad

Forms of digitigrade

pluraldigitigrades

Origin of digitigrade

From French digitigrade, from Latin digitus (“finger, toe, digit”) + -grade (“gait”); compare New Latin digitigradus.

Words formed from digitigrade

Questions about digitigrade

What does digitigrade mean?
Digitigrade means of an animal: walking on the toes, putting the weight of the body mainly on the ball of the foot, with the back of the foot, or heel, raised.
What is digitigrade in Tamil?
Digitigrade in Tamil is விரல் நடை, விரல்நடையான. See Digitigrade meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is digitigrade?
Digitigrade can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce digitigrade?
Digitigrade is pronounced /ˈdɪd͡ʒɪtɪˌɡɹeɪd/ (UK).

Words near digitigrade in the dictionary

  1. digitgrade
  2. digithapsin
  3. digiti
  4. digitiform
  5. digitiformly
  6. digitigrade
  7. digitigrades
  8. digitigradism
  9. digitigrady
  10. digitilization
  11. digitilizations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: digitigrade (page history and authors); digitigrade (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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