scansorial
scansorial adjective: adapted to or specialised for climbing.
Adjective
scansorial (comparative more scansorial, superlative most scansorial)
- Adapted to or specialised for climbing
- scansorial claws
- Habitually climbing; tending to climb
- The forelimbs of saltatory animals often resemble those of ambulatory or scansorial species, […]2008, Brian Hall, Fins into Limbs: Evolution, Development, and Transformation, page 261
Forms of scansorial
| comparative | more scansorial |
|---|---|
| superlative | most scansorial |
Origin of scansorial
From Latin scansarius, from scansus, past participle of scandere (“to climb”).
Words formed from scansorial
Words that rhyme with scansorial
- memorial
- monitorial
- territorial
- accessorial
- arboreal
- categorial
- equatorial
- factorial
- inquisitorial
- pictorial
- sartorial
- senatorial
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- tutorial
- accusatorial
- assessorial
- censorial
- combinatorial
- conspiratorial
- corporeal
- cursorial
- dictatorial
- directorial
- editorial
- enchorial
- epichorial
- executorial
- grallatorial
- imperatorial
- incorporeal
- intracorporeal
- lavatorial
- marmoreal
- multifactorial
- observatorial
- piscatorial
- primorial
- promontorial
- proprietorial
- purgatorial
- rasorial
- responsorial
- saltatorial
- sectorial
- spectatorial
- suctorial
- tectorial
- uxorial
- vectorial
- advertorial
- agitatorial
- amatorial
- ambassadorial
- ambulatorial
- ancestorial
- armorial
- assertorial
- auctorial
- auditorial
- authorial
- boreal
Questions about scansorial
- What does scansorial mean?
- Scansorial means adapted to or specialised for climbing.
- What part of speech is scansorial?
- Scansorial is an adjective.
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