prehensile
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The genus name comes from the Greek for “prehensile foot,” which the scientists chose because this is the oldest known cephalopod with suckers.
From Science Magazine
The prehensile tail that gives the tree-dwelling, fruit-eating species its name exists in this case in the imagination only.
From Seattle Times
The prehensile tips of a regular harvestman’s legs, which Dr. Sharma compared to fingers with a hundred extra knuckles, were found to be under the control of another gene.
From New York Times
“It’s like a human growing a prehensile tail.”
From Science Magazine
Residents of the White House have had fur and feathers, claws and hooves, scales, stripes and prehensile tails.
From New York Times
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