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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

(Zool.)

(a)

Capable of climbing;

as, the woodpecker is a

scansorial

bird

; adapted for climbing;

as, a

scansorial

foot

(b)

Of or pertaining to the Scansores. See Illust. under

Scansorial tail

(Zool.)

a tail in which the feathers are stiff and sharp at the tip, as in the woodpeckers.

scansorial ‎(comparative more scansorial, superlative most scansorial)

(zoology) Adapted to or specialised for climbing.
scansorial claws
(zoology) Habitually climbing; tending to climb.
- Brian Hall, Fins into Limbs: Evolution, Development, and Transformation, page 261:
  The forelimbs of saltatory animals often resemble those of ambulatory or scansorial species, […]