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saltigrade

saltigrade adjective: having feet or legs formed for leaping.

Adjective

saltigrade (not comparable)

  1. Having feet or legs formed for leaping.

Noun

saltigrade (plural saltigrades)

  1. (obsolete) One of the Saltigradae, a former tribe of jumping spiders (now treated as the family Salticidae).

saltigrade meaning in Tamil

saltigrade in Tamil

தாவு சிலந்தி, குதிப்பதற்கு ஏற்ற காலமைப்புடைய சிலந்தி, குதிப்பதற்கு ஏற்ற காலமைப்புடைய

Forms of saltigrade

pluralsaltigrades

Origin of saltigrade

From Latin saltus (“a leap”) + -grade (“way of walking”) (often used especially for foot morphology).

Questions about saltigrade

What does saltigrade mean?
Saltigrade means having feet or legs formed for leaping.
What is saltigrade in Tamil?
Saltigrade in Tamil is தாவு சிலந்தி, குதிப்பதற்கு ஏற்ற காலமைப்புடைய சிலந்தி, குதிப்பதற்கு ஏற்ற காலமைப்புடைய. See Saltigrade meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is saltigrade?
Saltigrade can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near saltigrade in the dictionary

  1. saltierras
  2. saltiers
  3. saltierwise
  4. salties
  5. saltiest
  6. saltigrade
  7. saltigrades
  8. saltillo
  9. saltillos
  10. saltily
  11. saltimbanco

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Adapted from Wiktionary: saltigrade (page history and authors); saltigrade (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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