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Tardigrade vs Plantigrade - What's the difference?

tardigrade | plantigrade |

As adjectives the difference between tardigrade and plantigrade

is that tardigrade is sluggish; moving slowly while plantigrade is (of an animal) walking with the entire sole of the foot on the ground.

As nouns the difference between tardigrade and plantigrade

is that tardigrade is (zoology) a member of the animal phylum tardigrada while plantigrade is a plantigrade animal.

tardigrade

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Sluggish; moving slowly.
  • * {{quote-book, passage=Each tendril ending in a perfect claw, / Obeys the whole routine of Nature's law; / Transforms each sinus to a sylvan shade, / Though p'rhaps its force is rather tardigrade .
    • , title=Poems , author=Joses Badcock , volume=1 , year=1850 , page=67 , pageurl=http://books.google.ca/books?id=Q2d38wvcxq8C&pg=PA67&lpg=PA67&dq=%22rather+tardigrade%22&source=bl&ots=x4Gez6VUbE&sig=t3gojjAeUgUhg5mP7MnPnTiTs-Y&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3RT_T5DrPIWlrQHokLGLCQ&redir_esc=y
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    • , chapter=Botany; or, Phytology}}
  • * {{quote-book, passage=He ran on into the piazza, but he quickly heard the tramp of feet behind him, for the other two prisoners had been released, and the soldiers were struggling and fighting their way after them, in such tardigrade fashion as their hoof-shaped shoes would allow—impeded, but not very resolutely attacked, by the people.
    • , year=1863 , title=(Romola) , author=(George Eliot)}}
  • * {{quote-book, passage=In sorrow, its voice is tardigrade but loud, dragging time at a snail's pace before our eyes.
    • , title=Century One , page=92 , pageurl=http://books.google.ca/books?id=8ntoWUQDgyQC&pg=PA92&lpg=PA92&dq=%22is+tardigrade%22&source=bl&ots=eUM3LA-Y__&sig=Lie_V6QtujBCtIFmExvkC3vCwzE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TRf_T5n5KMimrQG8uJyLCQ&ved=0CD4Q6AEwAg
  • v=onepage&q=%22is%20tardigrade%22&f=false
    • , chapter=The Metronome , author=Richard S. Conde , year=2001 , isbn=0-595-16296-7}}
    Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    (wikipedia tardigrade) From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (zoology) A member of the animal phylum Tardigrada.
    • Synonyms
    * water bear

    plantigrade

    English

    (plantigrade locomotion)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of an animal) walking with the entire sole of the foot on the ground.

    • Antonyms

    * digitigrade

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A plantigrade animal

    • Antonyms

    * digitigrade