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gravigrade

gravigrade adjective: slow-paced.

Adjective

gravigrade (comparative more gravigrade, superlative most gravigrade)

  1. (dated) slow-paced

Noun

gravigrade (plural gravigrades)

  1. (obsolete) An elephant or manatee, or member of the obsolete suborder Gravigrada.

Forms of gravigrade

Adjective
comparativemore gravigrade
superlativemost gravigrade
Noun
pluralgravigrades

Origin of gravigrade

From Latin gravis (“heavy”) + -grade (“way of walking”).

Questions about gravigrade

What does gravigrade mean?
Gravigrade means slow-paced.
What part of speech is gravigrade?
Gravigrade can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near gravigrade in the dictionary

  1. gravidness
  2. gravidynamics
  3. gravied
  4. graviera
  5. gravies
  6. gravigrade
  7. gravigrades
  8. gravimagnetic
  9. gravimagnetization
  10. gravimeter
  11. gravimeters

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