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rasorial (ruh-SOHR-ee-uhl) - adj., (of birds) given to scratching the ground for food; (of a bird's foot) adapted for scratching the ground.
Poultry are the big example, and the order of birds that included chickens and other fowl used to be called Rasores, till the whole organization was reorganized. The order is named from Late Latin rāsorēs, plural of rāsor, scratcher/scraper, from the past participle of Latin rādere to scrape/scratch, from whence we also get razor and raze -- and, indeed, rasorial is sometimes used as a humorous $20 word meaning relating to shaving.
---L.
Poultry are the big example, and the order of birds that included chickens and other fowl used to be called Rasores, till the whole organization was reorganized. The order is named from Late Latin rāsorēs, plural of rāsor, scratcher/scraper, from the past participle of Latin rādere to scrape/scratch, from whence we also get razor and raze -- and, indeed, rasorial is sometimes used as a humorous $20 word meaning relating to shaving.
---L.
