plantigrade mammal

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsplantigrade

   Antonymsdigitigrade mammal

   Broaderplacental

Questions about plantigrade mammal

What does plantigrade mammal mean?

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

What is another word for plantigrade mammal?

Close synonyms include plantigrade. 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 mammal?

The recorded antonyms are digitigrade mammal.

Is plantigrade mammal a common word?

plantigrade mammal 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.