Gravigrada

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Translingual[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Latin gravis (heavy) + gradus (step); coined by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville in 1839.

Proper noun[edit]

Gravigrada

  1. (obsolete) A taxonomic suborder within the order Quaternates – gravigrades (originally elephants and manatees).