Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Adapted for walking or having limbs adapted for walking. Used of flightless birds.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In zoology, adapted for walking; formed for or having the habit of walking; ambulatory; specifically, in entomology, of or pertaining to the Gressoria: as, gressorial feet; gressorial birds; gressorial insects.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Adapted for walking; anisodactylous; as the feet of certain birds and insects. See Illust. under aves.
Etymologies
- From New Latin gressōrius, from Latin gressus, step, from past participle of gradī, to walk; see ghredh- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“Despite his attempts at self-taught flight, he remains gressorial and speaks to himself and other animals in Jesse Eisenberg's stop-and-go whine.”
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