His hind-feet are plantigrade, that is, they rest upon the ground from heel to toe; and his back curves like the segment of a circle. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North] Reference
His hind feet are plantigrade, that is, they rest upon the ground from heel to toe; and his back curves like the segment of a circle. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Adventure Tales] Reference
Sure enough, after the four plantigrade toes, he went for the dewclaw. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
Fingers pointing diagonally forward and laterally, sprawling forelimbs, plantigrade feet. From Wordnik.com. [Life's Time Capsule: Questions about Pterosaurs #1] Reference
They were plantigrade bipeds, rather like men although the body was thicker and the average only came to his shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
“By this point, for both Ada and myself, our beloved plantigrade was a painful sight” (in reference to a stuffed bear). alopecia. From Wordnik.com. [More Vocabulary from Eco « So Many Books] Reference
No. Is he a plantigrade circumflex vertebrate bacterium?. From Wordnik.com. [A Horse's Tale] Reference
He is a plantigrade, walking like a man upon the soles of his feet. From Wordnik.com. [Black Bruin The Biography of a Bear] Reference
The plantigrade Cercoleptes has a long tail, and is entirely arboreal. From Wordnik.com. [The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America] Reference
Therefore I need not say anything more about the plantigrade division. From Wordnik.com. [Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions] Reference
It is plantigrade -- that is, it stands lower on the hind-legs than in front. From Wordnik.com. [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference
"It is a plantigrade circumflex vertebrate bacterium that hasn't any wings and is uncertain.". From Wordnik.com. [A Horse's Tale] Reference
The beaver whilst gnawing sits on his plantigrade hind legs, which keep him conveniently upright. From Wordnik.com. [The River of the West] Reference
In considering this question, the first fact to appear is that the apes and lemurs are plantigrade animals. From Wordnik.com. [Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution] Reference
Von Baumser shrugged his shoulders and lumbered off like a good-natured plantigrade, closing the door behind him. From Wordnik.com. [The Firm of Girdlestone] Reference
Like the perissodactyls, they are descended from the primitive five-toed plantigrade mammals of the lowest Eocene. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
"Our ability to walk economically may largely be the result of our plantigrade (heel first) posture," said Carrier. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
The 'bare-grinning skeleton of death' was to me merely a prepared specimen of that featherless plantigrade vertebrate. From Wordnik.com. [Father and Son: a study of two temperaments] Reference
The well-known plantigrade tread of bears is a primitive characteristic which has survived from their creodont ancestry. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
"There are some other plantigrade animals besides bears?" said Ivan, interrogatively; "our badger and glutton, for instance?". From Wordnik.com. [Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt] Reference
They are not bears in any sense of the word: having scarce any other resemblance to the noble Bruin than their plantigrade feet. From Wordnik.com. [Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt] Reference
He runs awkwardly on his plantigrade feet; but, although from his great length and size he appears to move but slowly, it is not so. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Hunters] Reference
It is plantigrade that all of the of web tideland and scot fluorite slow in affect for the web to be misogynistic to seton with droplet. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
(I’ve come across this one before but couldn’t remember what it meant) plantigrade. From Wordnik.com. [More Vocabulary from Eco « So Many Books] Reference
No, post-Cretaceous maniraptorans wouldn’t end up looking like scaly tridactyl plantigrade humanoids with erect tailless bodies. From Wordnik.com. [Dinosauroids revisited] Reference
As you can see, I drew the dog’s feet “digitigrade” rather than “plantigrade,” meaning I lifted the heels off the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
Digitigrade feet, not plantigrade ones. From Wordnik.com. [Dinosauroids revisited] Reference
Don't be a plantigrade, a human bear. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Complete] Reference
23. plantigrade. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
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