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noun an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses
adjective (of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do)
originFrom French digitigrade, from Latin digitus (“finger, toe, digit”) + -grade (“gait”); compare New Latin digitigradus.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0