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prehensile

adjective as in acquisitive

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When given just a few cubes, the elephant picked them up with the prehensile tip of her trunk.

When offered just a few cubes, the elephant picked them up with the prehensile tip of the trunk.

The coaita has neither pouches on the sides of his jaws, nor callosities on the posteriors: he has a very long prehensile tail.

Their tail is prehensile, naked underneath at the extremity, and very bushy over every other part.

His tail is not prehensile but flaccid, and half as long again as his head and body.

They grasped things with the strong prehensile grasp of the infant, rather than with the clutch of the miser.

The tall giraffe, with his prehensile lip, raised nearly twenty feet in the air, can browse upon these trees without difficulty.

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On this page you'll find 187 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to prehensile, such as: rapacious, avaricious, avid, covetous, demanding, and desirous.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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