prehensile
Example Sentences
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Many also have long, prehensile tails capable of bearing their weight, which they use while climbing and reaching for fruit.
From Science Daily • May 28, 2024
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
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 • Aug. 6, 2021
They have a prehensile tail that wraps around things like an extra limb.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
