pronograde, a.
(ˈprəʊnəʊgreɪd)
[f. L. prōn-us prone a. + -gradus going, walking: see grade n.]
Moving on all fours.
| 1902 [see orthograde a.]. 1918 F. Wood-Jones Probl. Man's Ancestry 22 The likeness [to man] still further diminished in the lemurs, and in the general run of pronograde quadrupedal mammals it reached a minimum. 1971 F. S. Hulse Human Species (ed. 2) vii. 168 For moving or standing in a pronograde position, that is, on all fours, a somewhat tube-shaped pelvis is quite adequate. 1978 Nature 14 Dec. 706/1 A narrow trochlea with pronounced anteromedial and posterolateral borders such as is characteristic of cercopithecoid monkeys (and many other pronograde quadrupedal mammals). |