Definitions for "Prehensile"
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).
Keywords:  quiller, keen, couch, intellect, poets
having a keen intellect; "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch
Keywords:  clasping, coiling, touch, response
Clasping, coiling in response to touch.