plantigrade

1. 1.

   an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings

   Synonymsplantigrade mammal

   Broaderplacental

1. 1.

   (of mammals) walking on the whole sole of the foot (as rabbits, raccoons, bears, and humans do)

   Antonymsdigitigrade

   mammal

Other forms of plantigrade

plural

plantigrades·

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.

Questions about plantigrade

What does plantigrade mean?

plantigrade means "an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in plantigrade?

plantigrade has 3 syllables: plan-ti-grade. The stress falls on "plan".

What is another word for plantigrade?

Close synonyms include plantigrade mammal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of plantigrade?

The recorded antonyms are digitigrade.

Is plantigrade a common word?

plantigrade is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.