Definition & Meaning | English word PLANTIGRADE

---

Definitions of PLANTIGRADE

1. (zoology) Of an animal: walking with the entire sole of the foot on the ground.
2. (zoology) A plantigrade animal; an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot on the ground.

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

Examples of Using PLANTIGRADE in a Sentence

• Common characteristics of modern bears include large bodies with stocky legs, long snouts, small rounded ears, shaggy hair, plantigrade paws with five nonretractile claws, and short tails.
• Humans, and other animals that walk on the soles of their feet, are described as being plantigrade; unguligrade animals are those that walk on hooves at the tips of their toes.
• Early amphicyonids, such as Daphoenodon, possessed a digitigrade posture and locomotion (walking on their toes), while many of the later and larger species were plantigrade or semiplantigrade.
• Due to the more digitigrade stance of their legs compared to the plantigrade stance of other members of Procyonidae, some taxonomies place the genus as a separate family, Bassaricidae.
• A plantigrade foot is the primitive condition for mammals; digitigrade and unguligrade locomotion evolved later.
• Godzilla was originally conceived by special effects director Eiji Tsubaraya, special effects designers Akira Wantanabe and Teizo Toshimitsu and producer Tomoyuki Tanaka as a robust, erect-standing, plantigrade reptilian sea monster, played by an actor in a rubber-latex full-body suit.
• Neuropathy in the hind legs may cause the cat to develop a plantigrade stance, walking on its hocks rather than its toes.
• Kuban observed that this metatarsus impression is usually on the same level with the digit impressions – suggesting that these dinosaurs must have walked with a plantigrade (or "flat-footed") foot posture.
• goliah, is that unlike modern kangaroos, which are plantigrade hoppers at high speeds and use their tails in pentapedal locomotion at slower speeds, Procoptodon was an unguligrade biped, walking in a fashion similar to hominids.
• It is caused in part by prolonged hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) and results in dysfunction of one or both tibial nerves and a plantigrade stance (down on the hocks).
• Unlike modern bears, Hemicyon walked on its toes; it was not plantigrade, but digitigrade, with long metapodials.
• Like all barbourofelids, Prosansanosmilus was very muscular, short legged and probably walked plantigrade (flat-footed).
• The features of the astragalus are unlike those of plantigrade carnivorans such as ursids, and more similar to those of digitigrade felids, but it likely wasn't fully digitigrade like modern dogs and cats.
• Signs of muscle weakness can include a plantigrade stance of the hindlimbs, cervical ventroflexion, inability to jump, lateral recumbency, or collapse.
• Hyaenodonts were ancestrally plantigrade, but the later, larger forms were generally digitigrade or semidigitigrade.
• Plantigrade catarrhine monkeys lack the capacity for suspensory locomotion or to focus body weight over the knee joint; knuckle-walking apes lack strong big toes and thumbs, and have more robust finger bones; and both lack an extendable knee.
• The foot of Periptychus was plantigrade, pentadactylous and paraxonic in structure, with wide toes well spaced apart, much like those of the hand.
• It likely used the large first appendage pair to lift itself up off the substrate, and may have rested plantigrade on the 9th podomere to spread its bodyweight, while using its trunk biramous appendages to propel itself forwards.
• Other symptoms in both cats and dogs include ataxia, asthenia, hepatomegaly, visceromegaly, enlargement of head and distal extremities, heart murmur, degenerative atrophy, thickening of skin and fur, stridor and a plantigrade stance in cats.

Page preparation took: 389.82 ms.