What is the meaning of plantigrade?

noun

  • An animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e. G. Bears and human beings.

adjective

  • Of mammals. ( walking on the whole sole of the foot (as rabbits, raccoons, bears, and humans do)).
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