Cursorial: alternatives and connections

Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory animal.

A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings. See Aves.

An order of extinct mesozoic reptiles, mostly of large size (whence the name). Notwithstanding their size, they present birdlike chara…

The division of Aves which includes all the typical birds, or all living birds except the penguins and birds of ostrichlike form.

Having a fanlike tail; belonging to the Eurhipidurae, a division of Aves which includes all living birds.

Semipalmate and loboped, as a grebe's foot. See Illust. under Aves.

Having the toes separated to the base. [See Aves.]

a burrowing mammal having limbs adapted for digging

the rate of moving (especially walking or running)

Suitable for walking; -- said of the limbs of an animal when adapted for walking on land.

Adapted for walking, as the feet of certain birds.

Adapted for walking; anisodactylous; as the feet of certain birds and insects. See Illust. under Aves.

Between members or limbs; as, intermembral homology, the correspondence of the limbs with each other.

Lively in walking or running; brisk; light-footed.

Furnished with membranous flaps, as the toes of a coot. See Illust. (m) under Aves.

The long and heavy hair growing on the upper side of, or about, the neck of some quadrupedal animals, as the horse, the lion, etc. See…

Totipalmate; -- said of the feet of certain birds. See Illust. of Aves.

An order of herbivorous dinosaurs with birdlike characteristics in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind legs, which in some gener…