scansorial

From Latin scansarius, from scansus, past participle of scandere (“to climb”).

• Rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl

scansorial (comparative more scansorial, superlative most scansorial)

1. (zoology) Adapted to or specialised for climbing

   scansorial claws

2. (zoology) Habitually climbing; tending to climb
   • 2008, Brian Hall, Fins into Limbs: Evolution, Development, and Transformation, page 261:

     The forelimbs of saltatory animals often resemble those of ambulatory or scansorial species, […]

• scansoriality

• ambulatorial
• cursorial
• fossorial
• gressorial
• natatorial
• raptorial
• saltatorial

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