digitigrade

Pronunciation: /ˈdɪd͡ʒɪtɪˌɡɹeɪd/

The English word “digitigrade” has 4 meanings listed here.

adjective

Of an animal: walking on the toes, putting the weight of the body mainly on the ball of the foot, with the back of the foot, or heel, raised.
Of feet or a manner of walking: of, resembling, or pertaining to that of a digitigrade animal.
Belonging to the Digitigrada of the taxonomic order Carnivora.

From French digitigrade, from Latin digitus (“finger, toe, digit”) + -grade (“gait”); compare New Latin digitigradus.

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