digitigrade

Adjective
  1. (of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do) (synset 300754691)
    referred to in: mammal, mammalian - 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
  1. An animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses (synset 102509779)
    is a type of: eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal - mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
    same as: digitigrade mammal

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