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/pɹɪhˈɛnsaɪl/
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ADJECTIVE
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adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object
a monkey's prehensile tail -
immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
they are avaricious and will do anything for money
grasping commercialism
a grasping old miser
greedy for money and power
casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields
grew richer and greedier
prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees -
having a keen intellect
poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men
How To Use prehensile In A Sentence
- The prehensile tail porcupine in South American actually lives in the treetops.
- Most pseudocheirids have a strongly prehensile tail (weakly so in the great glider and rock ringtail).
- No catarrhine has a prehensile tail, which means one crutch less. The Human Brain
- The trunk of an Asian elephant is so exquisitely prehensile that it can pick up a dime from a concrete floor.
- Any of several tropical American monkeys of the genus Ateles, having long legs and a long prehensile tail and lacking a thumb.
- He hypothesized that basal primates were visually directed predators of fauna on slender branches, a milieu that favored a wide field of stereopsis and clawless, prehensile hands for visually tracking and grasping prey.
- HANNA: A skink is a lizard, but it's a prehensile tail. CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2007
- In the first month of his new program, ever-aware Gandolo imprisoned the matriarchal Rotomor Gang and the triplet harridan sisters that commanded it, hung the notorious filcher Scynod of the Prehensile Feet, and chased a boisterous company of apes-turned-highwaymen from the Regretful Tomb Way all the way across the river Snat. GANDOLO OF THE WATCHFUL EYE • by Bill Ward
- The prehensile pectoral fins actually grasp the weed as the fish moves about.
- The prehensile pectoral fins actually grasp the weed as the fish moves about.
