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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
digitigrade is a noun and adjective meaning "an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses". It carries 2 recorded senses.
an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses
(of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do)
mammal
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for digitigrade come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.