Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey.
Structures adapted for grasping or seizing by curling or wrapping around such as the tail of some American monkeys and oppossums.
Adapted for clinging; dactylus strongly recurved, acute, length usually subequal to or longer than propodus (may be shorter than propodus in Epicaridean isopods).
Adapted for grasping or clinging, movable finger consisting of the dactylus, or dactylus & propodus and palm consisting of either the propodus or the carpus (the latter being the typical state of the Janiroidea).
adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object; "a monkey's prehensile tail"
immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees"
Adapted for seizing or grasping.
Acharacteristic of an appendage where the appendage curls so as to facilitate grasping
Adapted for grasping or wrapping around an object. Usually refers to the tail.
adapted to grasping or wrapping around
specially adapted to curl around and grab objects
Adapted for holding, especially by wrapping around, like a chameleon's tail.
Having the ability to grasp.
adapted to grasp or seize The woodcock's prehensile bill allows it to probe the ground and, when it finds an earthworm, open only the tip to grasp the worm and pull it out.
Adapted to grab or seize.
A tail that is capable of grasping objects or substrates, almost like a third hand.
Capable of, or adapted for, grasping.
the muscle control or the ability to grip with the tail
Prehensile means able to grasp or grab. For example, some monkeys have prehensile tails that can grab.
Adapted for grasping or wrapping around. Prehistoric Before the arrival of Europeans to America. In the southwest, this means anytime before the Spaniards arrived in 1539 A.D.