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prettygoodword ([personal profile] prettygoodword) wrote2017-07-21 08:45 am

cursorial

cursorial (kur-SOHR-ee-uhl) - adj., adapted for running.


Used of both limbs and the organism itself. For the latter, typically what's being described is long-distance running, like a horse or wolf, rather than short bursts, like a mouse or cheetah. Humans are, let it be noted, also cursorial. The word I acutally had on my list is hypercursorial, which seems to mean specialized to running as opposed to walking (I can't find an actual definition). Coined in 1836 from Latin cursōrius, of running, from cursor, runner, from cursus, past participle of currere, to run.

---L.

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