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Meanings of cursorial in English

(Of limbs and feet) adapted for running.

        Usage of cursorial in English
        1
        The late Pleistocene fauna of the Big Horn Basin in Wyoming is dominated by cursorial taxa.
        Pubmed
        2
        Isotope values of web-building and cursorial spiders in the earliest samples indicate aquatic gnat and midge prey.
        Pubmed
        3
        As yet, the hyracodonts have been found only in North America, and the last genus of the series, Hyracodon, was a cursorial animal.
        Darwin and Modern Science
        Cursorial through the time