prehensile
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
prehensile (not comparable)
- (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.
- prehensive
- French: préhensile
- German: Greif- (prefix in compound nouns)
- Italian: prensile
- Portuguese: preênsil
- Russian: це́пкий
- Spanish: prensil
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