Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Zoology Adapted to or specialized for climbing.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Habitually climbing, as a bird; pertaining to climbing: as, scansorial actions or habits; fitted or serving for climbing: as, scansorial feet; the scansorial tail of a woodpecker. Also scandent.
- Belonging to the Scansores.
- n. A member of the Scansores; a zygodactyl.
- Pertaining to the scansorius.
- n. The scansorius.
Wiktionary
- adj. zoology Adapted or to specialise in climbing.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Capable of climbing; ; adapted for climbing.
- adj. Of or pertaining to the Scansores. See
Illust. under aves.
Etymologies
- From Latin scansarius, from scansus, past participle of scandere, to climb; see skand- in Indo-European roots. (Wiktionary)
- From Latin scānsōrius, from scānsus, past participle of scandere, to climb; see skand- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Dimorphodon was a insectivorous flapper who may have been scansorial hat-tip to Mark Witton and his wonderful blog.”
“Nor have I discussed the little nyctitheres, a poorly known and long-mysterious Eocene-Oligocene group that appear to have been primitive, scansorial relatives of euarchontans.”
“In a future where all megafauna is extinct and where technologically advanced humans are highly skilled at genetic engineering, future people 500 years hence genetically create ungulate-like grassland people, cold-weather tundra people, scansorial forest and woodland people, and gilled, seal-like aquatic people (Dixon 1990).”
“The current data from theropods shows that quill-like integumentary structures were present in theropods before one lineage gave rise to scansorial proto-birds.”
“Judging by its limb bone morphology and the places where its remains are found, M. inexpectatus was a terrestrial form and it has even been suggested that it might have been scansorial: that is, able to climb trees.”
“Agamines are a really interesting group in terms of adaptation: we have scansorial, arenicolous and saxicolous species, the evolution of viviparity, and morphological transitions such as external ear loss.”
“He goes on to add: "The anterior limbs are decidedly fossorial, and the hinder suited for walking in a sub-plantigrade manner; both wholly unfitted for rapatory or scansorial purposes.”
“The next species is smaller and more vermiform, with acute compressed claws, a shorter tail, and no crest, and of more scansorial habits.”
“They belong to the scansorial order of birds; that is, they have two toes forward and two backward.”
“The toucan (Ramphastos) belongs to the genus of scansorial birds.”
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘scansorial’.
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phrontistery-s
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Logolepsy
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Afflictions of the Realm
archaic diseases
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Jargon
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....the prison library
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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
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rememberers
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Lee's List
Words I like, and should try to use more often.
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Lachesis's Words
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Some good words
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creative writing
help list
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