It commenced existence as a "pentadactyle plantigrade bunodont.

Even the ants have wings, and drop them in our soup as they resume their plantigrade existence once again.

Back in the very earliest Tertiary deposits, and in all certainty even earlier, a group of comparatively small mammals was extensively spread through America, and apparently less widely in Europe, characterized by a primitive form of foot structure, each of which had five complete digits, the whole sole being placed upon the ground, as in the animals we call plantigrade.

Bears, furthermore, have five digits on each foot and are plantigrade, while dogs have but four toes behind and are digitigrade.

At the other end of the table, close to where the food came fromand where the people got served firstwas the German passenger, a man strongly built and with a ruddy face, fair hair, reddish beard, clumsy hands, and a very long nose which reminded one of the proboscidean feature of the plantigrades.

What shouts arose when plantigrades or felines capered along the line with intentions that certainly seemed suspicious!

I am ashamed to write and talk, sometimes, when I see how those functions of the large-brained, thumb-opposing plantigrade are abused by my fellow-vertebrates,perhaps by myself.

This is because the size of the foot is an essential characteristic of the species, for no animal has the tarsus and metatarsus combined so small as man; hence the uprightness of his gait: he is a plantigrade.