cursorial
adapted for running, as the feet and skeleton of dogs, horses, etc.
having limbs adapted for running, as certain birds, insects, etc.
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How to use cursorial in a sentence
Those modifications most noticeable in the case of cursorial types may be briefly mentioned as examples.
It cannot be that it is learned by imitation, any more than the exercise of the cursorial powers can be said to be thus acquired.
Nests and Eggs of Birds of The United States | Thomas G. GentryNew Zealand has no indigenous mammalia, but in their place great cursorial birds with but rudimentary wings.
It had three toes, and is classed with the cursorial birds (ostrich, &c.).
cursorial adaptations in birds—limb proportions in the skeleton of Geococcyx.
Phylogeny of the Waxwings and Allied Birds | M. Dale Arvey
British Dictionary definitions for cursorial
/ (kɜːˈsɔːrɪəl) /
zoology adapted for running: a cursorial skeleton; cursorial birds
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