English Explanatory Dictionary

saltigrade

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Having feet or legs formed for leaping.
noun
  1. One of the Saltigradae, a former tribe of jumping spiders (now treated as the family Salticidae).

Word forms

saltigrade saltigrades

Etymology

From saltus (“a leap”) + -grade (“way of walking”) (often used especially for foot morphology).

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