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prehensile::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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| Synonyms | avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy |
prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees.
prehensile::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men.
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a monkey's prehensile tail.
Examples of prehensile
prehensile
I grabbed it by its prehensile tail and then wrapped the towel around its muzzle.
From the post-gazette.com
Platyrrhines, New World monkeys, have prehensile tails and males are color blind.
From the en.wikipedia.org
You hire a prehensile-tailed porcupine named Wednesday to do your bidding for you.
From the time.com
It appears to have secured itself for transport using its prehensile antennae.
From the sciencedaily.com
They are a procyonid, which means racoon-like, but they also have prehensile tails.
From the newscientist.com
Its unusual prehensile proboscis or snout is used to reach leaves and fruit.
From the sciencedaily.com
They just reach in with their prehensile tongues and snag all the seeds.
From the charlotteobserver.com
He possessed a mind cultured far above the average, widely informed, alert and prehensile.
From the en.wikipedia.org
It can clamber through and cling to the seaweed stalks with its prehensile pectoral fins.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object; "a monkey's prehensile tail"
- Having a keen intellect; "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch
- Avaricious: immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers ...
- Prehensility is the quality of an appendage or organ that has adapted for grasping or holding. The word is derived from the Latin term prehendere, meaning "to grasp. ...
- Specially adapted to curl around and grab objects
- Refers to a body part that can be used like a hand for grasping or holding.
- Appendages (usually pereopods) adapted for holding or clinging, the dactyl is as long or longer than the propodus, strongly developed and recurved.
- Adapted for grasping or clinging, movable finger consisting of the dactylus, or dactylus & propodus and palm consisting of either the propodus or the carpus (the latter being the typical state of the Janiroidea).
- To have one or more appendages, such as a hand, claw, or tail, that is designed for grasping or holding objects.
