prehensile
Example Sentences
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They move through trees using a prehensile tail for balance and mitten-like feet for a careful, measured stride.
From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 2025
Nor is it necessarily true that older political leaders invariably hang on to their seats as if with what Orwell called prehensile behinds.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2023
With their prehensile lips — they are distantly related to elephants — they grabbed the lettuce and nibbled.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 9, 2022
Residents of the White House have had fur and feathers, claws and hooves, scales, stripes and prehensile tails.
From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2020
He could wield five swords at once—four hands and the prehensile tip of his tail—and was so formidable and agile and huge that his adversaries would often drop their weapons and call a truce.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
