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saltigrade

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
salti-grade
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having feet or legs formed for leaping.

noun

One of the Saltigradae, a former tribe of jumping spiders (now treated as the family Salticidae).

Obsolete

Etymology

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

Usage

Inflected Forms

saltigrades (plural)

Questions

What does saltigrade mean?
Having feet or legs formed for leaping.
Where does saltigrade come from?
From Latin saltus (“a leap”) + -grade (“way of walking”) (often used especially for foot morphology).

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