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Scansorial

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Adapted to or specialised for climbing

    "scansorial claws"

  2. 2
    Habitually climbing; tending to climb

    "The forelimbs of saltatory animals often resemble those of ambulatory or scansorial species, […]"

Etymology

From Latin scansarius, from scansus, past participle of scandere (“to climb”).

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