saltigrade
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Latin saltus (“a leap”) + gradi (“to walk, go”).
Adjective[edit]
saltigrade (not comparable)
- (zoology) Having feet or legs formed for leaping.
Noun[edit]
saltigrade (plural saltigrades)
- (zoology, obsolete) One of the Saltigradae, a former tribe of jumping spiders (now treated as the family Salticidae).
References[edit]
- “saltigrade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.