plantigrade

English Thesaurus

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

hypernym	:	eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal,
definition	:	mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials (noun.animal)

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

domain category	:	mammal, mammalian,
definition	:	any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk (noun.animal)

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

antonym	:	digitigrade, digitigrade mammal,
definition	:	an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses (noun.animal)

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

antonym	:	digitigrade,
definition	:	(of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do) (adj.all)

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

antonym	:	digitigrade, digitigrade mammal,
definition	:	an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses (noun.animal)

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

antonym	:	digitigrade,
definition	:	(of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do) (adj.all)