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plantigradism en · NOUN

Etymology

From plantigrade + -ism.

Meanings

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