plantigradism

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English

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Etymology

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From plantigrade +‎ -ism.

Noun

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plantigradism (uncountable)

  1. Plantigrade locomotion.
    • 1898, Henry Fairfield Osborn, A Complete Skeleton of Coryphodon Radians:
      Contrary evidence that Coryphodon, so far from being unguligrade, was transitional between complete plantigradism and digitigradism, is given below.
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