Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun digitigrade

1 sense of digitigrade

Sense 1
digitigrade mammal, digitigrade -- (an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses)
       => placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal -- (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)

Antonyms of adj digitigrade

1 sense of digitigrade

Sense 1
digitigrade (vs. plantigrade) -- ((of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do))

plantigrade (vs. digitigrade) -- ((of mammals) walking on the whole sole of the foot (as rabbits, raccoons, bears, and humans do))

Similarity of adj digitigrade

1 sense of digitigrade

Sense 1
digitigrade (vs. plantigrade) -- ((of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do))