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What does digitigrade mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word digitigrade? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (zoology) Of an animal: walking on the toes, putting the weight of the body mainly on the ball of the foot, with the back of the foot, or heel, raised.
  2. (zoology) Of feet or a manner of walking: of, resembling, or pertaining to that of a digitigrade animal.
  3. (zoology, specifically) Belonging to the Digitigrada of the taxonomic order Carnivora.
Noun
  1. (plural) A digitigrade animal; an animal that walks on its toes, such as a cat or a dog.
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