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Plantigrade

noun
1.
An animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings.  Synonym: plantigrade mammal.






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"Plantigrade" Quotes from Famous Books



... quiet: coming up the stair, Don't be a plantigrade, a human bear, But, stealing softly on the silent toe, Reach the sick chamber ere you're heard below. Whatever changes there may greet your eyes, Let not your looks proclaim the least surprise; It's not your business by your face to show All that your patient does not ...
— The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... every defect. It delights us. Further, the great importance which is attached to small feet! This is because the size of the foot is an essential characteristic of the species, for no animal has the tarsus and metatarsus combined so small as man; hence the uprightness of his gait: he is a plantigrade. And Jesus Sirach has said[17] (according to the improved translation by Kraus), "A woman that is well grown and has beautiful feet is like pillars of gold in sockets of silver." The teeth, too, are important, because they are essential ...
— Essays of Schopenhauer • Arthur Schopenhauer

... less fleeting, however, than a lettuce or other sandwich and a dainty trifle of pastry; protective clothing; a house, or even a cave, to shelter us in cold or stormy weather—these, evidently, are clearly apprehended necessities, and we will march on the soles of our feet, like the plantigrade creatures we are, wherever such ...
— The Perfect Gentleman • Ralph Bergengren



Words linked to "Plantigrade" :   placental mammal, placental, digitigrade, digitigrade mammal, mammalian, eutherian mammal, eutherian, mammal



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