saltigrade
English edit
Etymology edit
Latin saltus (“a leap”) + gradi (“to walk, go”).
Adjective edit
saltigrade (not comparable)
- (zoology) Having feet or legs formed for leaping.
Noun edit
saltigrade (plural saltigrades)
- (zoology, obsolete) One of the Saltigradae, a former tribe of jumping spiders (now treated as the family Salticidae).
References edit
- “saltigrade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.