plantigrade

English

/ˈplæntɪɡɹeɪd/, /ˈplæntəˌɡɹeɪd/

adj
Definitions
  • (zoology) Of an animal: walking with the entire sole of the foot on the ground.

Etymology

Borrowed from French plantigrade derived from Latin planta (shoot, sole of the foot, sprout, offspring, twig, plant, cutting, a shoot, a young tree n-g, a sprout) derived from Proto-Indo-European *pléh₂-n̥t-eh₂, *pleh₂- (flat, broad, plain, wide, wide and flat, thin, field), *gʰredʰ- (go, walk, walkVerb).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*gʰredʰ-

Gloss

go, walk, walkVerb

Concept
Semantic Field

Motion

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

歩

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