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gressory

gressory adjective: gressorial.

Adjective

gressory (comparative more gressory, superlative most gressory)

  1. (rare) Gressorial.
    • The anterior pair of feet are compreſſed laterally, and ſerrated on one ſide, their extremities terminating in a ſingle nail. The four back feet are ſmooth and greſſory, being formed rather for advancing ſlowly than for performing quick movements.1792, “Natural history of insects. Chapter III”, in A new system of the natural history of quadrupeds, birds, fishes,—and insects, volume III: A new system of the natural history of fishes and...
    • Characters. Bill awl-ſhaped, flattiſh, obtuſe, ſtrait, with broad briſtles at the baſe. / Feet greſſory.1793, [translator], “Appendix, I. Of systems in ornithology”, in Count de Buffon, The natural history of birds, volume IX, London: Printed for A. Strahan, and T. Cadell […]; and J. Murray […], Picæ....

Forms of gressory

comparativemore gressory
superlativemost gressory

Origin of gressory

From Latin gressōrius, from gressus (“walked”).

Questions about gressory

What does gressory mean?
Gressory means gressorial.
What part of speech is gressory?
Gressory is an adjective.

Words near gressory in the dictionary

  1. Gressingham duck
  2. Gressingham ducks
  3. Gressoney-La-Trinité
  4. Gressoney-Saint-Jean
  5. gressorial
  6. gressory
  7. Greta
  8. Greta Bridge
  9. Greta effect
  10. Greta Main
  11. Greta South

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