Thesaurus / prehensile

prehensile

synonyms for prehensile

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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.

HUMANLY SPEAKINGSAMUEL MCCHORD CROTHERS

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

By means of his prehensile tail he suspends himself to a tree on the shore, and patiently awaits the coming prey.

Its length is about eighteen inches, exclusive of the tail, which is twelve inches long, and prehensile.

And by virtue of his prehensile organs and superior strength he ravishes the females of his species and goes his way.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985