Prehensile Definition

prē-hĕnsəl, -sīl
adjective
Adapted for seizing or grasping, esp. by wrapping or folding around something.
Webster's New World
Having a keen intellect or powerful memory.
A prehensile mind.
American Heritage

(zoology) Able to take hold of and clasp objects; adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object.

Some monkeys have prehensile tails which they use to pick things up.
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Origin of Prehensile

  • From French préhensile, from Latin perfect passive participle prehÄ“nsus, from prehendō (“grasp, seize"), + adjective suffix -ile, from Latin -ilis.

    From Wiktionary

  • French préhensile from Latin prehēnsus past participle of prehendere to grasp ghend- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Prehensile Sentence Examples

  • It is arboreal, bright green above; the end of the prehensile tail is usually bright red.

  • Tail longer than the body and head, scantily clothed with short hairs, prehensile.

  • The second maxillipeds are developed into powerful prehensile organs, and the branchiae, instead of being connected with the appendages of head and trunk, are developed on the pleopods, appendages of the abdomen.

  • Tail long, and sometimes partially prehensile when it is used for carrying bundles of grass with which these animals build their nests.

  • They may, however, be natatory as in many Ostracoda and Copepoda, or prehensile, as in some Copepoda.

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