digitigrade

Noun digitigrade has 1 sense

• digitigrade(n = noun.animal) digitigrade mammal - an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses;
is a kind of eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal

Adjective digitigrade has 1 sense

• digitigrade(a = adj.all) - (of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do);
Antonym: plantigrade