VividLex

Home / Thesaurus / scansorial

Thesaurus: scansorial

Capable of climbing; as, the woodpecker is a scansorial bird; adapted for climbing; as, a scansorial foot.

Full dictionary entry Search Lens associations

Related headwords

climbingdefinitionscansoresdefinitionadapteddefinitionavesdefinitionbirddefinitioncapabledefinitionfootdefinitionpertainingdefinitionseedefinitionwoodpeckerdefinitiontaildefinitionfeathersdefinitionsharpdefinitionstiffdefinitiontipdefinitionwoodpeckersdefinitionscansfamilyscansionfamilyscandiobabingtoniteneighborscandiumneighborScando-neighborscannedneighborscannerneighborscannersneighborscanningneighborscantneighborscantedneighborscanterneighbor

Definitions

  1. a. Capable of climbing; as, the woodpecker is a scansorial bird; adapted for climbing; as, a scansorial foot.
  2. a. Of or pertaining to the Scansores. See Illust.. under Aves.
  3. (a) Capable of climbing; as, the woodpecker is a scansorial bird; adapted for climbing; as, the scansorial foot. (b) Of or pertaining to the Scansores. See Illust. under Aves. Scansorial tail (Zoöl.), a tail in which the feathers are stiff and sharp at the tip, as in the woodpeckers.
  4. a. Capable of climbing; as, the woodpecker is a scansorial bird; adapted for climbing; as, a scansorial foot. a. Of or pertaining to the Scansores. See Illust.. under Aves.