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n. - An animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses adj. - (of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do).

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  • The skull is more solid, the jaws much deeper and more powerful, the fore limb much smaller, the tail shorter, the hind limb straighter and the foot bones more compacted so...
  • The thud of their boots was lost amidst digitigrade slither and click.
  • They were described as man-size bipeds, but digitigrade, which gave their feet almost the appearance of a dog's walking on its hind legs.
  • The natural cast of tetradactyl digitigrade footprint (Fig. lB), was found underneath the pelvic girdle by two of us (TS and GN), while the skeleton and matrix were...
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