prehensile

[US]/prɪˈhensaɪl/

[UK]/prɪˈhensl/

Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. capable of grasping

prehensile tail

prehensile hands

the prehensile tail of a monkey

a monkey's prehensile tail.

the long prehensile proboscis of an elephant

Poets are those strangely prehensile men.

A monkey has a prehensile tail.

A civet(Arctictis binturong) of southeast Asia with a long, prehensile tail.

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