Usually means: Walks on toes, not heels.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word digitigrade:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. digitigrade: Merriam-Webster
  2. digitigrade: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. digitigrade: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. digitigrade: Collins English Dictionary
  5. digitigrade: Vocabulary.com
  6. digitigrade: Wordnik
  7. digitigrade: Wiktionary
  8. digitigrade: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. digitigrade: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. digitigrade: Dictionary.com
  11. Digitigrade: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Digitigrade: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. digitigrade: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. digitigrade: Rhymezone
  15. Digitigrade: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. digitigrade: FreeDictionary.org
  17. digitigrade: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. digitigrade: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. digitigrade: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. digitigrade: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. digitigrade: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. digitigrade: Medical dictionary

(Note: See digitigrades as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (digitigrade)

adjective:  (zoology) Of an animal: walking on the toes, putting the weight of the body mainly on the ball of the foot, with the back of the foot, or heel, raised.
adjective:  (zoology) Of feet or a manner of walking: of, resembling, or pertaining to that of a digitigrade animal.
adjective:  (zoology, specifically) Belonging to the Digitigrada of the taxonomic order Carnivora.
noun:  (zoology, chiefly in the plural) A digitigrade animal; an animal that walks on its toes, such as a cat or a dog.

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