How To Use Prehensile In A Sentence
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The prehensile tail porcupine in South American actually lives in the treetops.
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Most pseudocheirids have a strongly prehensile tail (weakly so in the great glider and rock ringtail).
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No catarrhine has a prehensile tail, which means one crutch less.
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The trunk of an Asian elephant is so exquisitely prehensile that it can pick up a dime from a concrete floor.
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Any of several tropical American monkeys of the genus Ateles, having long legs and a long prehensile tail and lacking a thumb.
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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.
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HANNA: A skink is a lizard, but it's a prehensile tail.
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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.
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The prehensile pectoral fins actually grasp the weed as the fish moves about.
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The prehensile pectoral fins actually grasp the weed as the fish moves about.
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But again, it's called a bearcat with a prehensile tail.
CNN Transcript Jul 4, 2005
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A few minutes later, Sandro came scurrying from the alley, and placed his blood soaked muzzle in Bodhan’s lap, his bright phosphorescent eyes projecting sheer joy as his striped prehensile tail coiled and uncoiled rapidly.
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Brushtail phalangers have large ears, small dark eyes and extremely soft fur which varies in color from gray to rust red. They have a brush-like tail which is prehensile, but not weight bearing.
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I have a prehensile tongue," he said matter-of-factly.
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Their tails are long but not prehensile, and their feet are not syndactylous.
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There were many times when a hideous day (or month, or year) at the job felt a little better when I could look myself in the eye (using a mirror, as opposed to a prehensile eyestalk) and tell myself that at least I made my word quota.
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As well as strong claws, tamanduas have powerful prehensile tails to give them additional purchase when climbing.
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A tail is present and may be long or vestigial, but it is never fully prehensile as in many cebids.
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Unlike other primates, the human foot is not prehensile - that is, not able to grasp objects with the aid of an opposed first digit like the thumb.
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Coendou and Sphiggurus are arboreal animals, with long, spineless, prehensile tails and wide foot pads.
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A monkey has a prehensile tail.
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His tiny arms windmill in the air and he starts to fall, but I catch him with my prehensile tail, barely hard enough to cut into his clothes.
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The prehensile tail is muscular at the base, and it is hitched around a branch as an anchor, particularly when descending.
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The plate in the field guide shows a strange, golden-brown animal with a prehensile tail, hook-like claws and a funny snub nose.
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I took his prehensile toes between my thumb and forefinger.
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a monkey's prehensile tail
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A monkey has a prehensile tail.
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Like a monstrous octopus, poverty spreads its nagging, prehensile tentacles into hamlets and villages all over our world.
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poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men
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Their prehensile tails enable them to grasp branches, especially as they climb downward, and to balance on tree branches.
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The plate in the field guide shows a strange, golden-brown animal with a prehensile tail, hook-like claws and a funny snub nose.
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But again, it's called a bearcat with a prehensile tail.
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The Spider Monkey's prehensile tail, used as a fifth limb.
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This animal has a prehensile tail, which means it lives in the treetops.
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Nocturnal and arboreal, they clamber up trees and hang from limbs thanks to long prehensile tails and opposable inside toes (like thumbs) on their hind feet.
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Nocturnal and arboreal, they clamber up trees and hang from limbs thanks to long prehensile tails and opposable inside toes (like thumbs) on their hind feet.
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Coendou and Sphiggurus are arboreal animals, with long, spineless, prehensile tails and wide foot pads.
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The head projects into a crown of prehensile tentacles - ranging from 8 in the octopus to 80 or 90 in the living nautilus.
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Other species include giant armadillo Priodontes maximuss (EN), paca Cuniculus paca and prehensile-tailed porcupine Coendou bicolor.
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Only two members of the carnivore family have prehensile tails - the binturong and the kinkajou.
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When the cuscus was discovered, it was thought to be a monkey because of its prosimian-like movements; it grips branches with its partially hairless, prehensile tail as it travels slowly and deliberately through the rain-forest canopy.
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Note: possum, opossum, any of a family (Didelphidae) of American marsupials that usually have a pointed snout and prehensile tail; especially: a common omnivorous largely nocturnal and arboreal mammal (Didelphis virginiana) of North America having grayish to blackish fur with white on the cheeks;
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